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.
Nah, a few of the people I knew did though.
There was a Cadet Office in Hexham, which we used to pass on the way up to the schools
Did you ever feel like you were missing out? Or were those kids seen as a bit different or something
Not at all, it was just for the posh kids really