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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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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

Hitler Youth vibes. Europe/UK is seriously not okay right now jesus.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

Its been around for a while, but I can see where you're coming from and do think its a weird tradition to impress onto young kids

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, it's just ROTC, right? (Not that that makes it better, ROTC is also very Hitler Youth.) I guess I'm just saying, this post is like "here's a weird thing Britain does", and I'm like "we have that in the US too".

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

ROTC

Is that for 15 year olds too?

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

That might be the JROTC

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think so? Maybe it's only in college (university), but I think people in high school do ROTC as well. I don't really know, I went to a weird high school and don't have any connections to the military.