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An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.

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Richard Baker

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UK Richard Baker health weary weak trainers support stress rigorous recruit professional pressure performance limit fitness fatigue fail exertion exercise endurance course cardio barracks army MoD British army exhaustion weakened squad spent senior rescue military lying helping help failure dehydration candidate break in effort health and safety ambulance patients loading stretchered evacuate save Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Sandhurst officer cadet trainee training selection race test unconscious delerius pushed to the limit Land Rover campus grounds steeplechase retired perserverence refusal prospects ambition limits end of the road

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