The Royal Military Academy (Dutch: Koninklijke Militaire Academie or KMA) is the service academy for the Dutch Army and the Dutch Air Force. Located in Breda, The Netherlands, the KMA has has trained future officers since 1828. The KMA offers a program of study which lasts four or five years, depending on the academic majorcadets choose.1 On graduation, cadets are awarded a bachelor's degree and are commissioned in the Royal Dutch Army or the Royal Dutch Air Force.2 The KMA also offers a shortened officers course of one and a half years.3 Cadets that finish the shortened course cannot achieve ranks higher than that of major, while the program of four or five years can lead a graduate to achieve the highest ranks like general.4 The training of the officers of the Royal Dutch Navy and the Dutch Marine Corps is mainly done by the Royal Netherlands Naval College in Den Helder.
