The Cadets and the Community, One CO’s perspective

Sir, – In April of 2024, my friend and colleague Nick Carter posted an article ‘The Royal Navy Cadets and the Community’ [112/3, p. 354], in which he explained about the three Naval Cadet organisations. His background is with an independent school, Combined Cadet Forces (CCF), and presently the chairman of the unit management team for Stoke-on-Trent Sea cadet unit, a civilian committee to, among other things, run the charity side of the unit. To compliment Nick’s article, my background with the cadets is that of the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC), more specifically the unit in Stoke-on-Trent. Tha…