 The first class began at the school in mid @-@ 1983 and 13 students graduated the following year . Due to increasing requirements for SAMS graduates in the U.S. military , the army expanded the school in the 1990s , and in 2010 over 120 students graduated . Since the school 's inception , SAMS planners have supported every major U.S. military campaign , providing the army " with many of its top campaign planners for the late twentieth and early twenty @-@ first centuries " . 
