The reform mattered beyond initial training because its officers reached staff rank as the Navy recorded and debated wartime lessons. A cadet who entered near the scheme's beginning could have fourteen years of service and First World War experience by 1919, placing him around lieutenant-commander or staff-officer level. Those were precisely the officers likely to draft lessons-learned material and carry it into later appointments. Their education therefore shaped the institutional thinking that informed interwar doctrine, procurement, and preparation.
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How scheme-trained officers carried First World War lessons forward
The scheme's 1905-1919 generation became the lieutenant-commanders and staff officers who interpreted the First World War for the interwar Navy.