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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Fam Visit (September 2010)
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On 28th September a group of L6 Army and selected DESG students left for a Familiarisation Visit to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where our aim was to gain an insight to the Academy through which every Officer in the British Army must pass. Our first sight of Sandhurst was an impressive one, that of an Apache attack helicopter parked in front of Old College, and the trip had barely started!
After lunch in the Old College mess we had a tour of the Academy. It is made up of three main parts:- Old College - the oldest and most impressive white building where the first term is spent, New College - a red brick building that holds the Intermediate and Upper terms and lastly Victory College where shorter courses are run for TA and professionally qualified Officers. The whole site was immense, with the three Colleges making up only part of the whole Academy.
To help us become more familiar with the layout of the Academy an orienteering exercise was set up which took teams of four round most of the sights in the Academy. Afterwards, tired from our run, we went into dinner in the mess and then into a lecture delivered by an Officer in the Royal Engineers. This was an important part of the trip, as at the end of our two years at Welbeck all Army students must choose a technical Corps in the Army to be sponsored by, so this part helped many students begin to decide which Regiment or Corps they wanted to join.
The next day we received an insight to both the Corps of Royal Engineers and The Royal Signals when they set up displays for the Officer Cadets in their first term.
On the whole the trip was a very rewarding experience, allowing us to see the Royal Military Academy and daily life there. It also had some very informative parts about the different regiments that Welbexians can join and the history of Sandhurst itself.
Leon Debnath, Trenchard 10E
