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.
It’s just cadets, without the combined part. Army cadets, navy cadets, or RAF cadets. Which one you can join is dependent on which ones you’re near, rather than getting a choice like in the CCF.