Gilgamesh Free State Officer Candidate Academy

The Gilgamesh Free State Officer Candidate Academy, also known simply as the GFS Academy, was an officer candidate academy for the armed forces of the Gilgamesh Free State. Established in with the aid of  advisors, the Academy took in its first class that year of about one hundred candidates. This number rapidly increased to seven hundred per class by, and then again to nearly one thousand by. Unlike officer academies, which generally consisted of four years in peacetime, the GFS Academy's curriculum was two and a half years before commissioning.