Lt Chesterman studied mechanical engineering at the University of Southampton before attending the Britannia Royal Naval College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

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The current sultan trained as an officer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK and served in the British Army in the early 1960s.

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He worked in the Ministry of Defense under the Communists, is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and has studied in the United States.

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In Qatar, the first course of a British-run staff college is due to begin this September and Kuwait has just chosen the UK to help run its own equivalent of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

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The 29-year-old officer graduated from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy. (For the record, he is not driving an ill-gotten Mercedes Benz, on his way to an illicit gambling den.) "Changing people's mindset is harder than changing the system, " says Montri, flipping through the GPS handbook.

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They are Dover Christ Church Academy, St Augustine Academy, The Duke of York's Royal Military School, John Wallis Academy, The Knole Academy and Wilmington Enterprise College.

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The Duke Of York's Royal Military School, near Dover, is an academy with military traditions.

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