Английская Википедия:Brigade Squad

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Brigade Squad was a course for potential officers run by the Guards Division training depot at Caterham and subsequently Pirbright.

Alan Clark described Brigade Squad as follows:

Brutalisation can take two forms, both of which I have undergone. One is the Etonian education where there is the intellectual kind: it's not so much a brutalisation as a very cruel and long-drawn-out initiation ceremony to a fraternity. And then there is the much rougher brutalisation which takes place at the Guards Brigade Squad Camp, which every guards officer has to undergo. Quite rightly it is worse than that to which the ranks are subjected. So when you see all those 'chinless wonders' strutting about in their posh uniforms, you will know that for eight weeks they have had an absolutely appalling time, probably worse than you will get anywhere outside a Victorian prison.[1]

People who have completed Brigade Squad

In theory any officer serving in the Household Division should have completed Brigade Squad. However, there were a number of methods of avoiding it, e.g. by changing to a Guards Regiment after starting Sandhurst.-

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