This new young age for the Army has another reaction and that is on the age which a subaltern gets his first commission. A good. deal of time is wasted between the school-leaving age and being gazetted into the Army. It is considered that cadets could join one year earlier. The question of study at the two cadet colleges must come under review as the Sandhurst production is no longer needed purely for rifle battalions and cavalry. The latter requires light tank officers and one fourth of the infantry need technical machine gunners. It would seem to some that a mechanized army could best be served by combining Sandhurst and Woolich into a technical college ith a wing for infantry
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