2016 Sandhurst Competition Adds Conference at West Point

By Tactical-Life

The following is a release from Maj. Michael Jackson and Mr. Lionel Beehner:

Hundreds of future military leaders from around the globe came together at the U.S. Military Academy to compete in the annual military skills competition and an inaugural conference Monday.

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The Sandhurst competition started in 1967 as an internal cadet event, but today is a diverse multinational and joint service competition that attracts teams from across the country and across the world to test their physical fitness, military proficiency and leadership. For the first time, the academy made a noncompetitive addition, the inaugural Sandhurst Conference.

“This conference leverages the uniquely diverse and international audience of Sandhurst teams to enhance cadets’ critical thinking and complex problem solving skills,” said Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy. “I can’t imagine that a group made up of motivated, young, future officers, with representation from five continents, talking about the things we talked about, exists anywhere else in the world.”

The theme of this year’s conference was, Preparing our Future Leaders for Modern War.

“We’re complementing the main focus of the competition with an academic component to examine the …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life