In 1981, after attending high school in the U.S. and then Sandhurst Military Academy in England, Abdullah joined the army.

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After receiving a high school education in the U.S. and attending Sandhurst Military Academy in England, Abdullah in 1981 embarked on a career in the Jordanian army, rising to command the special forces as a major general.

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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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Mr Hammond is in Afghanistan and is due to sign an agreement in Afghanistan today to set up a British run military academy there that has been called "Sandhurst in the Sand".

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The compound in Abbottabad is about a kilometre from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst.

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