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 did the RAF cadets at school. I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time. Got to do a lot of fun activities and wracked up about 20 hours of flying time. Even got to land a grob tutor one time.
But yeah, it was also a tool of indoctrination, so fuck that
Did you keep up with the flying or anything later in life?
I wanted to but it's an expensive hobby and I was way too into drinking and drugs as a young adult to spend my time doing anything fun or constructive.
I mean, if I know my pilots....
Lol yeah