Web Desk (LTN NEWS): The military’s media arm said that Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in the UK on an official trip early Thursday morning.
A press release from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday said that the army chief will attend the passing-out parade at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. The army chief will be the most important person there.
During the trip, the COAS will also meet with the military leaders of the UK, according to the armed forces’ media affairs branch.
Sources said that the trip was “a standard official military visit,” which is something that happens every year.
Due to the pandemic, the army chief hasn’t been to Sandhurst in the last few years. Before that, he went there every year when he was in charge of the army.
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) is one of the United Kingdom’s military academies. It is where new officers in the British Army are trained.
All officers in the British Army are trained at the academy. This includes late-entry officers who were once Warrant Officers, as well as men and women from other countries. Sandhurst is like the Britannia Royal Naval College and the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, but for the British Army.
When the Royal Military College merged with the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1947, the RMAS was made on the site of the old Royal Military College.
After the UK got rid of National Service and the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot closed in 1972, the RMAS became the only place where men in the British Army could get their first officer training.
