The Camilo Cienfuegos Military Schools System (Spanish: Escuelas Militares Camilo Cienfuegos, EMCC) are a type of boarding school in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Founded 1966, it has 20 campuses in many cities, and is an official military high school. They provide pre-military training to students aged 11 to 17.[1] They forge of more than 70% of officers and 50% of the generals and colonels in the FAR.[2] It is named after Camilo Cienfuegos, a Cuban revolutionary who, along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro, took part in the 1956 Granma expedition. Unlike the Russian Suvorov Military Schools, they are co-educational, modeled on United States military high schools and preparatory pre-college institutes.
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