King's Cadet Corps

His Majesty's Cadet Corps is a military-style patriotic youth organisation operating in Great Nortend. The programme is run by the Board of Education and the War Office in conjunction with the Royal Army, the Navy Royal, the Royal Servicemen's Club and the Erbonian Navy League. More than 400,000 boys between the ages of 11 and 19 are members of the Corps.

Organisation

The Cadet Corps are mostly run on a local basis in senior schools, with the majority of boys' senior schools operating a cadet company, independent, common and state. All cadets partake in land and some sea activities, although certain companies may skew towards either side depending on their backgrounds.

Cadet companies are supervised and run by adult staff officers, assisted by senior cadet officers. Staff officers are usually both employees of the school wherein the company is based, as well as members of the Militia. Officers receive a formal commission from the King as a Cadet Staff Officer. Senior cadet officers, holding the rank of Ensign (or Cornet in units affiliated with the cavalry), often in 6th form studying for either matriculation or commission into the Royal Army or Navy Royal, are also commissioned as a Cadet Under Officer.

Activities

The core component to cadet activities is based on general military training, usually focussing on the land warfare aspect, i.e. the Royal Army. This includes learning history of the armed forces, discipline, traditions, navigation, field surgery, drill, marksmanship and fieldcraft. Leadership skills are also important for cadet non-commissioned officers.

Another component is patriotic service, which aims to inculcate love for God, King and country by engaging in what may be termed community service activities, as well as pilgrimages, camping, woodcraft, aquatic activities, hiking and sports. These two activities are evidently not mutually exclusive, and throughout all, appropriate military-level discipline and structure is maintained.

Cadet companies often organise weekends or weeks away in the countryside to these ends, with each company at least running an annual field exercise. On a more regular level, cadet companies usually have weekly or twice-weekly parades on weekday afternoons.