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Military Academies And Schools

The educational institutions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces have a staff of highly qualified teachers, the material base for studying and the conditions necessary for teaching and education that make possible the development of the physical, mental, professional, scientific, cultural and political and moral capacities that the military profession demands, especially in a country that bases its defense on the widest participation by the people.

The military academies and schools train officers or raise their professional level in the fields of command and technical, legal and medical affairs. The main ones are:

- General Máximo Gómez Revolutionary Armed Forces Academy

- General Antonio Maceo Revolutionary Armed Forces Interservice School

- General José Maceo Revolutionary Armed Forces Interservice School

- José Martí Military Technical Institute

- Granma Naval Academy

- Dr. Luis Díaz Soto Institute of Military Medicine

- Major Arides Estévez Sánchez Military School

- Baraguá National School for Special Troops

GENERAL MÁXIMO GÓMEZ REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES ACADEMY

Founded on July 3, 1963, this the main educational scientific center of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. Its beautiful and extensive facilities, located to the east of the capital, cater for hundreds of young officers who raise their qualifications there in order to occupy higher positions in the command chain.

The institution has been one of the main centers where Cuban military thought has been forged, with a permanent and active link with the main tasks of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

It is named after a distinguished Dominican and outstanding strategist of the people's war, who fought for the independence of Cuba and became General-in-Chief of the Liberation Army.

GENERAL ANTONIO MACEO REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES INTERSERVICE SCHOOL

This center, founded in February 1963, has vast experience in training officers for the Revolutionary Armed Forces and also has a long tradition of organization and discipline.

In its extensive and beautiful facilities, located to the south-west of the capital, hundreds of young people are trained as officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in specialties of command and engineering for the different technical divisions of ground troops.

It does honor to the name of one of the most important leaders of the Cuban independence wars of the 19th century, who fell in combat on December 7, 1896 --a date on which homage is paid to all those who gave their lives in the independence struggles and in the fulfillment of internationalist missions.

GENERAL JOSÉ MACEO REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES INTERSERVICE SCHOOL

The institution was founded on September 15, 1980 and it is located in Santiago de Cuba, the second most important city in the country.

Its students and teachers have acted as befits the traditions of the beautiful city that shelters them, the only city with the honorary title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and which is rightly considered the cradle of the revolution.

It trains officers in the specialties of command of the different weapons of ground troops. It carries the name of one of the most battle-hardened leaders of the Cuban independence struggle of the 19th century, who fell while fighting the Spanish colonial army on July 5, 1896.

JOSÉ MARTÍ MILITARY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

This has the mission of training highly qualified engineers and command cadres for the different weapons and troops of Air Defense and the Revolutionary Air Force.

This important educational center is located in the city of Havana and has all the necessary facilities for the fulfillment of its mission.

It has the honor of carrying the name of José Martí, National Hero of Cuba.

GRANMA NAVAL ACADEMY

Located to the east of the capital, this school shares its facilities with the «General Máximo Gómez Revolutionary Armed Forces Academy». It has the responsibility of preparing officers for the Revolutionary Navy.
	The teaching-learning process is also developed in ground naval units, on ships, and in bases and repair workshops during practice periods. This institution began to prepare officers for the Revolutionary Navy in 1959, so it has vast experience in this task.
Granma is the name of the yacht that brought 82 expeditionaries from Mexico under the command of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. They landed in Cuba on December 2, 1956 to continue the armed struggle from the mountains.

DR. LUIS DÍAZ SOTO INSTITUTE OF MILITARY MEDICINE

This institute began to train medical officers for the Revolutionary Armed Forces in October, 1980, but it was inaugurated as a military hospital on December 3, 1963, with the name of Dr. Luis Díaz Soto, a Cuban doctor who fought as a volunteer in the Spanish civil war in the 1930s.

Since then, it has been an important care center for the military and the population in general, for scientific research and professional upgrading of specialists in the different fields of medical science.

MAJOR ARIDES ESTÉVEZ SÁNCHEZ HIGHER MILITARY SCHOOL

This school is in charge of training military lawyers. Its facilities, located in the city of Havana, have faculty rooms, specialized classrooms and training grounds, which ensure teaching of a high professional level.

The high human quality of its students and teaching staff is the best tribute to Major Arides Estévez, an officer of the Revolutionary Armed Forces who fell while fulfilling an internationalist mission.

BARAGUÁ NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL TROOPS

Located to the west of the capital, this school has the mission of preparing officers for the Special Troops of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. The rigor of the instruction and the students' high level of physical preparation corresponds to the violent, rapid and coordinated action demanded by the missions of the units that they will be part of once they graduate.

It is named after the place in the east of the island where Major General Antonio Maceo led the Protest of Baraguá of 1878, a symbol of the Cuban patriots' revolutionary intransigence in the struggle for independence.

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