Vasile Michael
RMA Sandhurst is the place where you learn the fundamental meaning of military thinking and wisdom. Living and training in RMA Sandhurst means being born again, little by little. Here you blend your own being with the miracle of military education. It is a difficult road, with steep slopes, but extremely attractive for someone having such a voluntary character as Prince Harry. For him, to live the life of a cadet means to change gradually. To become a real man, ready to face life and the military career!
Vasile Michael is a former Navy officer, retired from the Army with the rank of Captain Navy (Colonel). Born in Transilvania, Romania, he is living In Bucharest with his family.
He is professionally qualified in managing Military Units and has a scientific Ph.D. in Military Sciences. To reach this level he wrote over 150 works: articles, scientific research works and books. The literature is his favorite passion. So, after living the Army he became a writer.
From early age he was interested in History of the British Royal Family. In 1999, when he was teaching at the English- Romanian Military Training Center he spent three months in England at RMA Bracknell, Surrey and made some trips all over the country. Then he decided to write a book on this topic.
Our actions follow us! We are what we did in the past. What we learnt in our childhood and teen-age years. We’re the fruit of our personal past. There are people who have a passive attitude towards themselves, who don’t want to experience change, who don’t dream of surpassing their limits, who aren’t focused on the future. They’re focused on routine, repetition and the past. But we, the graduates of Sandhurst Academy, aren’t like them! For us the past no longer has control over the present. As a consequence of the military education we’ve received here, we feel that the echo of the past can be stifled, modified and even annulled. We’ve become different people, more mature, more firm and more disciplined!”
“None of us will ever make mistakes like the ones we made before coming to Sandhurst. Here we’ve learnt that a real man can control himself. He can also have a hand in the creation of his own self. He creates himself as he experiences adventure and the unknown. He divides the evolution of his world into two stages: the fullness of the present moment and the inertness of the past. Through graduation he has achieved across a great number of levels but it’s the achievement of graduating and becoming fully mature that’s the most important for the present moment.”
“The craftsman thinks only of his future work! The womanizer wants the women he’s never known and who he’ll love sometime in the future. The writer dreams only about the books he has not yet written. In the same way we, the graduates, don’t think about the past but about how to be useful to society in the next period of our lives. The miracle of life lies not so much in the present or in the past, but rather in waiting for the infinite possibilities that will crystallize tomorrow. The past and the present represent a limit. The facts are confined to what has been achieved. Future means infinite virtual possibilities. For us, it means pure possibility, the great adventure!”
