The Military Academy contains branches, which provide additional training and skills. It also features a prolonged study system so as to graduate more elite officers to serve in the army, such as the Branch of Military Arts and Thunderbolt School.[4][5]
The founding of the Military Camp in Egypt dates back to the year 1811, when the first Military Camp was set up in the area of Cairo Citadel. In 1820, the Military camp moved to Aswan, and in 1908, it was relocated to the Abbassia Military Barracks in the El-Koba Bridge area. Later the camp expanded and Military School was established in the camp in 1909.
Originally admission in the school was reserved for members of the Egyptian upper class, the Academy changed its rules for admission in 1936 to allow the sons of lower and middle-class families to enter.[6][7]
In March 1938, the Military School's name changed to become the Royal Egyptian Military Academy. After the Egyptian revolution of 1952, the Military Academy's present site was established and inaugurated by the late Egyptian PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser on March 3, 1955.
Mohammed Aly Fahmy – Commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Command (May 1969 – January 1975) and Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (January 1975 – October 1978).
