Filtvelt Military Academy
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Contents
General
Located in the outer reaches near the periphery border, the academy is a torch of knowledge in a ocean of undereducation.[1]
History
Federated Commonwealth
In the buildup to the FedCom Civil War there was intense competition driving the students of the Academy and the dropout rate was high every year, because the average citizen from the Outback regions coudln't handle the stress of deducated military study. Applicants were transferred to other academies when they went further in their academic field of studying. Graduates from Filtvet were considered second rate compared to those from premier academy members like the NAIS or Albion.[1]
Filtvelt Coalition
After the Jihad the independent Filtvelt Coalition attempted to expand the Filtvelt Academy just as the Coalition's industrial and economic base was rapidly expanding. Unfortunately, this proved harder than hoped; the demand for qualified officers from the expanding Filtvelt Citizen's Militia continually outstripped the number of graduates from the Academy. This, combined with the generally low standard of education endemic to the worlds in the region rapidly created a "brain drain" in the early part of the thirty-second century, forcing Prime Minister Berko Okeke, ruler of the Coalition, to push through a combination of tax and spending increases that increased education facilities at both primary and university stages throughout the Coalition. These measures were successful to such an extent that worlds bordering the Coalition began to adopt them, but it took until 3138 for the Academy to be capable of producing enough trained personnel to meet the FCM's demands.[2]
Special Notes
Units within the Crucis March such as the March Militias and the former FedCom RCTs recruit heavily from it.[1]