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A ''brevet d'état-major'' ( French) or ''stafbrevet'' ( Dutch), both literally "general staff brevet", is a form of military distinction in France and Belgium which denotes that an officer has completed a course at a military academy. A recipient is entitled to have ''breveté d'état-major'' (BEM) or ''stafbrevethouder'' (SBH) used as part of their formal title after their military rank, for example "Colonel BEM Émile Gilbert".
In France, the distinction was awarded between 1870 and 1940 after passing a course at the
A ''brevet d'état-major'' ( French) or ''stafbrevet'' ( Dutch), both literally "general staff brevet", is a form of military distinction in France and Belgium which denotes that an officer has completed a course at a military academy. A recipient is entitled to have ''breveté d'état-major'' (BEM) or ''stafbrevethouder'' (SBH) used as part of their formal title after their military rank, for example "Colonel BEM Émile Gilbert".
In France, the distinction was awarded between 1870 and 1940 after passing a course at the École Supérieure de Guerre
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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A BEM was awarded for studying a one-year course known as a "''Cycle d'études supérieures d'état-major''" at the École de Guerre in Brussels, however, this was changed to a much more lengthy course and its bestowal only after being considered by a military panel.
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