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staff college

British  

noun

  1. a training centre for executive military personnel

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The inquiry also recommended a review of actions by two civilian employees of the staff college to see if disciplinary action was warranted.

From Reuters • Jun. 20, 2012

Born in Rhodesia in 1927, General Walls had a long military career, training at the British military academy in Sandhurst and the staff college at Camberley.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010

Suharto asserts that he bartered sugar for rice to ease a local food shortage and did not benefit personally, but he was transferred to a less influential position at the army staff college.

From Time Magazine Archive

I applied what I had learned at staff college, the ability to think.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had extensive staff experience, being a graduate of the staff college and having spent about one-third of his service in the Indian Army on the staff.

From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown