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Anybody do CCF at school?
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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.
I kinda wish I'd done cadets when I was younger, honestly.
Hearing other kids at school talking about weekends of ratpacks full of biscuits fruit made me quite envious.
I also discovered I'm not a bad shot, so who knows how much better I'd have been with training.
The trips were definitely fun, and the guns were kinda fun (You spend most of the time getting mud out of the barrel every time you sat down)
I can't shoot for shit, though am decent with bow and arrow.