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I think you should stop using the word cadet in comparison with junior entry soldiers, they are two very different creatures.  I hope this helps explain the difference.  Cadets are a youth organisation with military overtones sponsored by the Ministry of Defence.  Cadets go camping as part of...

Nothing I described was anything like remotely similar to any cadet programme

When I joined in 1979 there were a number of different types of junior entry: There were Junior Leaders (which is what I was)  Minimum age was 16 1/2 on entry.  The course was 11 months and included a lot of extras such as learning how to be an instructor, writting lesson plans, etc.  Indeed...

Ok here we go. In the British Army there are two reasons for fractioned numbers: The most common has been mentioned above.  The amalgamation of two numbered units.  This is especially true with the Cavalry as shown by such units as the 17th / 21 st Lancers. However, for WW1 infantry...

What about the option of: "It does not matter if he/she has served in uniform or not."?

Prince Harry would never by addressed as Your Majesty. Your Majesty is only ever used for a King or Queen. His Royal Highness, Prince Henry...... etc will be addressed as Sir or 2Lt Wales just like any other officer.

Finished reading it a couple of weeks ago. It is quite a good book.  With both points of view well put. My overall view remains that it was an accident though I am sure not everyone on here will agree with me.  The US pilots were hung out to dry by their own system.  It appeared to me that...

Very true - most MP do not care what you think of them.  They have heard it all before and it did not impress them then either  ;)

To paraphrase Churchill "The value of partisans lay not in how many troops they kill or how many things they blow up, but in how many troops they keep watching." Every one of the troops employed on anti-partisan duties was another one not available for the front.

The British Army is taking this calmly because it is a done deal and going to happen no matter what the troops think.  The only element that is still making a fuss (and fighting a lost cause IMO) are the Scots. The only good thing about any of this is the removal of the daft multi-badged inf...

Just as a matter of interest the UN has estimated it will need 500 m to pay for the disaster relief operations in Pakistan.  It will be a long job, and now that winter is comming, more mass deaths are expected unless the world acts quickly.  :skull: So far the world has pledged 85 m.  ??? When...

Regarding the limiting of the number of battle honours carried on the Colours by the British Army:  Yes the British Army does limit the number of honours borne on the Colours, probably for the same reason that the Canadian Army (or whatever it is called these days), i.e. there is only so much...

The award of a battle honour to The Royal Yeomany is the first to be awarded to the Territorial Army since 1945. As for the comments about The Black Watch and The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the new regiment has not yet been formed, so it is indeed a Black Watch award.

I agree 100% with the soldier first mentality, but if anything the lack of training being provided by the government could be construed as making the CSS troops more deserving. After all the suggestion is that these troop are not properly prepared to go to war and yet they are being sent - thus...

Of course you can also think about what your own Section 2IC does or did, plus you can also ask your Section Comd what he expects from you. Just as an aside, the lessons I learnt as a 2IC have been very useful later in civilian life.  I have always supported my managers in the same way as I did...

In addition in my day as an infantryman the 2IC of a section was also the admin man.  It was he who looked after the admin, managing the ammo state, making sure the men were being fed and watered, sentry rosters were made out etc.  All this was done to enable the Sect Commander to get on with...

That is the point of free speech.  If people can advocate the separation of their province - others can legitimately have their contrary views too. I do not believe it is wrong to have such a political view.  However, as soon as the first actual step is taken, any member of the Canadian Army...

My personal view is that if Quebec ever did decide to betray Canada not one serviceable piece of equipment or stone of any Federal building should be left standing. Traitors do not deserve in "inherit" anything at all. If they want to have an army, then they will have to pay for it. If anyone...

I currently live in The Netherlands. People keep many of their customs because they grew up with them and a desire to make a better life does not necessarily include the desire to abandon everything that makes the person who they are culturally. Maybe the German folk in and around Kitchener...

Just found the whole peom: The Young British Soldier When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.       Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,       Serve...