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Combined Cadet Force

I still have a hard time explaining this to people who don't know what it is.

Essentially, kids are "voluntarily" put into this thing after school where they dress up in uniforms and berets and forced to do marching drills.

You then pick whether you want to do Army/Navy/RAF, and you get to do some shooting drills. Guns are brought into the school (without ammo) and kids are shown how to shoot.

Every year each group goes on a summer camp type excursion where they get to fire real weapons or fly gliders or something.

And that's it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did thr RAAF cadets in Australia for 10 years.

Was awesome, showed me I didn't want to join the airforce haha.

Seriously though we had a great time, the structure and the instruction was great.

Most of my friends all went on to join the military and are only now getting out in our early 30s were as I got a trade and sorted my shit

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Hah yeah, I came to same revelation