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SANDHURST 2
Commandant’s Foreword 3 1 Platoon BBQ 4 Impressions of Juniors 5
The Lived Experience of a a Commissioning Course 211 Officer Cadet:
A Female Perspective 7
Exercise MONTGOMERY’S MARK 11 Blenheim Coy Dinner Night 14 Ex LONG REACH – Winter Term 21 15 Ex SECOND ATTACK 16 Inter-Company Sports Competition
– Winter Term 21 17
Intermediate Term from the perspective
of an OCdt 18
Exercise MARTELLO SHARPSHOOTER 20
Exercise NORMANDY SCHOLAR
March 2021 22
Regimental Selection Boards 23
The Somme Somme to the Somme Somme (and back again!) Charity Event 24
Gaza2Gaza 26
Exercise CHURCHILL’S CHALLENGE 27
Elections terrorism and public unrest:
Exercise DYNAMIC VICTORY 28
CC202 Exercise DYNAMIC VICTORY 30 Commissioning Course (Short) 211 32 Exercise AMPHIBIOUS CADET 34 Exercise SANDHURST CAVERN CADET – An Adventure in Claustrophobia 35 Exercise DRAGONS DRIVE 36 Exercise DOWNHILL DRAGON 37 Exercise FROSTY CADET 38 Exercise GREAT GLEN CADET 39 Exercise HARD GRIT 40 Exercise HIGHLAND CADET 41 Exercise LOST CADET 42 Exercise MOUNTAIN BIKE 43
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SANDHURST Exercise MUDDIER CADET 44 Exercise MUDDY CADET 44 Exercise NAVIS CADET 48 Exercise CADET PADDLE 49 Exercise PADDLING PROSPECT 50 Exercise PEAKY BLINDER 51 Ex STRUTTING CADET – Daily Diary 52 Ex SNOWDONIA CADET 52 Exercise WANDERING CADET 54 Exercise WATER WANDERER 55 Exercise WET CADET 56 Lucknow Platoon Cultural Visit to to London 58 Summer in the Basement 59 Impressions from an International
Officer Cadet 61
Final Impressions on on RMAS 62
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) 64
Lucknow Platoon Instructor 66
Impressions of Sandhurst 68
Impressions of an an International
Platoon Commander 69
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Senior
NCO Instructor Selection Cadre 72
China values the the Commonwealth Does the the UK? 74
Culloden Battlefield 80
Ex CORSE SERPENT –16 Medical Regiment 82
Exercise NORTHERN LAKES – Yorkshire Officer Training Regiment 84
HISTORICAL 86
Major Richard McCormack MBE
Late Coldstream Guards 86
Famous Friday 90 Sandhurst Collection News 98
SANDHURST TRUST 106
The Sandhurst Trust Slow March! 106
FOR THE RECORD
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