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Sandhurst 2009
This year's competition will be held on
Saturday, 18 April 2009 and is open to spectators.
On Friday 17April 2009 Sandhurst squads will conduct the
marksmanship portion; this will be closed to spectators.
The Sandhurst Military Skills Competition has run in various
configurations since 1967. This year, it is a two-day event
conducted at the United States Military Academy West Point, New
York.
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The British Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
teams took both 1st and 2nd place during the 2008 competition.
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At its core, Sandhurst is an inter-company competition for USMA.
However, West Point teams now compete, not only amongst themselves,
but against teams from their fellow United States Service Academies,
8 select University ROTC teams, the United States Military Academy
Preparatory School team, and international teams from Britain's
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), Canada's Royal Military
College (RMC) , Afghanistan's National Military Academy and, for the
first time in 2009, The Chilean Military School.
Each USMA Cadet Company and Visiting Team selects a 9-member Squad
(at least one member must be female) with two alternates. This squad
is required to perform a series of challenging military tasks during
a rapid, non-tactical move along a partly-prescribed 7 mile route.
The winning squad will be determined by the total time required to
negotiate the course. The squads total time will be a combination of
the time taken to complete the course from start to finish as well
as any time penalties incurred throughout the course and on the
marksmanship portion.
Awards will be given for the squad that negotiates the course in the
least amount of time as well as the top squads in Marksmanship and
Orienteering.
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