 Eighty thousand students passed through the school in its first four years, with the first class starting 4 November of the same year.As of 30 September 1965, the armor school had graduated 214,122 students – of whom 59,737 were officers, 140,909 were enlisted soldiers, and 13,476 were officer candidates – as well as students from 63 nations.The school was established by then–Lieutenant Colonel Stephen G. Henry under the guidance of Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee Jr., for whom the headquarters building is now named.