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Meet the Cadets Who Sang Ukraine’s Anthem in Crimea During Russian Occupation Ceremony​

Nakhimov Naval Academy Savastopol Crimea Ukraine


Now Senior Lieutenant Pavlo “Pasha” Hladchenko, left front, sings Ukraine national anthem with loyal fellow cadets
of Sevastopol’s Nakhimov Naval Academy who were returned to Ukraine when Russia took control of the academy
in 2014. As of 2019 Pavlo was a patrol boat commander at the Odesa Naval Base where he is shown in the video
to include his wife and toddler daughter.


Voiceover In English




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During the annexation of the Crimea, most of the Ukrainian servicemen and law enforcement officers remained on the peninsula. Only 6,000 returned to mainland Ukraine. Among them were 200 cadets from the Nakhimov Naval School. In March 2014, when the institution was transitioning to Russian jurisdiction, about two dozen cadets sang Ukraine’s national anthem – they immediately became symbols of loyalty to Ukraine. This is the story of one of them – Pavlo “Pasha” Hladchenko.

On March 20, 2014, Pavlo, a second-year cadet did not join the ceremonial formation. The 19-year-old, together with several dozens other cadets, remained in the building and watched what was happening on the parade ground out the window. When the Russian and St Andrew's flags were hoisted onto the flagpoles, Pavlo, along with his fellow students, ran into the courtyard and began to sing the national anthem of Ukraine.

Ceremonial music was then turned up to drown out the singing. After finishing the anthem, the cadets saluted, patted each other on the shoulder and returned inside. A month later they came to Odesa. We are sitting in the cabin of the anti-sabotage boat “Hola Prystan,” which he commands, and watching the video taken that day.

When a cadet takes down the Ukrainian flag, Pavlo says: “He doesn’t understand what he is doing. I think he cries there anyway.” When the footage becomes shaky – the cameraman started running towards the cadets – Pavlo laughs: "I thought they were running to beat us up then."



Comments

Văn Phạm​

Glory to Ukraine! From Vietnam! God bless you, brave sailor.

Elliot Lake​

Well done, and inspiring. The world cannot allow this to go on any longer.

Dylan​

Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!

Dylan​

Hope these guys are still alright and in good health given the current situation. Slava Ukraini!

Nicolas​

Hope he is alive and well!

Sara Hawkins​

"To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods."

Princess​

Glory to Ukraine! Crimea will always be Ukrainian land! We are not threatened by nazi occupiers. Crimea will be free!

Cadet Force Pipes and Drums UK | Beat to Retreat | Edinburgh Castle | April 19​

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Cadets of Canada Army Force | Fun Saturday Parade & Review | Advanced Summer Camp

Blackdown Armed Forces Base & Training Center Ontario | March On Only | On The Foursquare




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There are roughly 1700 Cadets on Parade this morning. You can clearly see the results of excellent training and teamwork. All this to prepare for reviews & parades over the next two final weeks of the six week summer camp. Great work and many thanks to the Staff at Blackdown. Without you, this would not be possible.

Each individual cadet standing at attention with a pennant flag is the Guide for each company, to indicate the position of the company on the Foursquare Parade Field. This is all done by the cadets and their cadet commanders as the regular force cadre disappears -- as they know well they must do. Indeed, this is a cadet show and do which is what it's all about.

The cadets march onto the Foursquare from three different points or corners. The upper left corner or the Two Corner has the Guard Company with rifles leading the march on. As the camera focuses in on the Guard lead platoon we can see the company commander on the outside and the 1st PN LDR on the inside, each bearing his command staff aka the "swagger stick" of the British military. We also see the cadet officer in charge of the band wandering to the front rank of the band, which is not good as he should be out front leading the band, rather than the regular force music director Major. I state the American perspective as the Brits and Canadians do it differently with their armed forces cadets.

Cadets also march on from the upper right or the Three Corner and the lower right or the Four Corner of the field. These different access points spares everyone of all the 1700 cadets -- or whatever number in whichever service -- in formation marching onto the Foursquare from one single point in a long, time consuming column to arrive at each company's field position. Once the training regiment is in position the cadet in chief of the summer training camp commands "face left, by company." Which means each cadet company commander orders the company to face left, or front. The four distant voices we hear are the four company commanders at the rear commanding their companies to attention -- there are eight companies in this formation, totaling 32 platoons = 1700 cadets.

The summer camp cadet in chief of each service is typically a 19 year old extended beyond the 18 year old higher age limit because of his or now her outstanding record as a cadet from his or her first days, usually age 12. This is an annual practice -- and unique distinction -- for the cadet selected as cadet in chief leader of the huge operation summer training camp is. The cadet works with the camp regular force commander and staff in making the camp a success.

Canada Army Colonel inspects Army cadets in Montreal to include evaluating their program of instruction and training. British &
Canadian Army officer rank insignia are adapted to US ROTC cadet officer insignia in the US Army and USMC at both the high
school and university/college level. So that the diamonds we see here on the Canadian Army Colonel are used in US ROTC
too. While the colonel here has two diamonds and a crown = colonel, in USA ROTC for Army and Marine cadets one diamond is
major, two diamonds is Lt.Col and three diamonds is cadet colonel. In USA ROTC the diamonds are silver and there is no crown ha.

The Canada combined cadet force of Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force are 55,000 strong.

 

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USA Young Marines and Sea Cadets Compete at National Leadership Academy

"We have a kind of coercive relationship with each other."

"Rock, paper, scissors to see who goes first......uh, wait a minute, isn't it two out of three?"





Youth members of the Young Marines met with Naval Sea Cadets for some fun and competition at the National Leadership Academy at Camp Rilea Armed Forces Training Center in Warrenton, Oregon. The Young Marines is a national non-profit 501 (c)(3) youth education and service program for boys and girls, age eight through the completion of high school.

The Young Marines promotes the mental, moral, and physical development of its members. The program focuses on teaching the values of leadership, teamwork, and self-discipline, so its members can live and promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

Since the Young Marines' humble beginnings in 1959 with one unit and a handful of boys, the organization has grown to over 235 units with 7,500 youth and 2,500 adult volunteers in 40 states, the District of Columbia, Japan, and affiliates in a host of other countries.

 

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US Young Marines Leadership School
Camp Rilea | US Armed Forces Training Center | Warrington Oregon


Young Marines

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The Young Marines promotes the mental, moral, and physical development of its members. The program focuses on teaching the values of leadership, teamwork, and self-discipline, so its members can live and promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.










Cadets of Canada | Blackdown Armed Forces Base & Training Center Ontario

Blackdown Cadets Anti Bullying Day & And Raising of Pride Flag​

It was an unexpected pleasure for our Five Points Media production crew to record the events of the first ever Blackdown Cadet Training Centre anti-bullying day event and Pride flag raising. The speakers, both senior cadets, dug deep to tell their stories of abuse and isolation as forced upon them simply because of who and what they are.

The entire Blackdown Cadets got into the movement, quite literally, as they walked or ran a three-kilometre course to raise money for a fundraiser being managed by Military Police on Canadian Forces Base Borden / Base des Forces canadiennes Borden.

We would like to thank the following sponsors of the City of Barrie Network. These businesses show they care about our shared community by helping us to provide a not-profit-motivated truly local voice to you and your neighbours. They also enable our crew to be able to continue providing donated services to promote local benevolent community groups and Barrie-based charities.

 

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Cadets of Texas A&M ROTC | All Services | Military Band Only | Arrival in Fort Worth

Texas Agricultural & Military College | College Station Texas | An ROTC Senior Military College | Full Time Residential

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March Music:
Patton
Ballard of the Green Berets Made Famous by SGT Barry Sadler
War March Fight Theme of Texas A&M Military College


TX A&M Military College is one of six Pentagon "Senior" ROTC colleges of the USA. That is, full time for ROTC and residential. You graduate with a Baccalaureate civilian major/minor(s) and your ROTC program is full time. This is very different from the 276 uni/college programs that are part time ROTC and that facilitate life as a college student and civilian. Either way you graduate and are commissioned as an officer in your service. Yet your "senior" program is more like WP, Annapolis, AF Academy, CG Academy.

Sharing this "senior" designation with TX Aggie #4 and their Pentagon ranking are Citadel #1, Norwich U in VT #2, VMI #3, VA Tech #5, North GA College #6. I'll say too the best officers I knew during my active duty were from Citadel. WP grads and spouses definitely were careerists (although not all stay in).


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Goosebumps every time they play Patton's march on the march in. The echoes are awesome!

There is nothing like a military marching band and these band is one of the best.

The Texas A&M Band, a national treasure, and a Texas institution.

Tremendous tempo, all the way! And with such a huge musical organization. Well done on the arrangers’ parts, too.

They are incredible and just make me so proud of being American. Such a beautiful family filming this.

From a Marine Corps tank crewman... God bless the Aggies band.

Texas A&M Air Force ROTC Detachment Named Best In The Nation​

"Our ROTC programs have always done a superb job of preparing our cadets to commission and lead
in our country’s military, and this recognition of AFROTC Detachment 805 comes as no surprise."

Detachment 805, as the Texas A&M unit is technically designated, garnered highest team honors in
an annual competition involving all 145 AFROTC Detachments in the United States.











Cadets of US Army ROTC | San Diego State University California | Program Run Through

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR EAST, San Diego Cadets assigned to the San Diego Aztec Army ROTC, provide security during a comprehensive field leadership development exercise (LDX). The ROTC program strives to train, mentor, and develop future leaders who are both tactically and technically proficient. ​

Cadets of Culver Military Academy Indiana | Black Horse Regiment 80 Horses

Practice for Inaugural Parade | Washington DC | 17th Culver Inauguration of POTUS




Ha a main purpose of the practices with all 80 horses and riders is to get conditioned for the long march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade. The unit I was in, the Military District of Washington DC practices the long march along the closed runway of the Naval Air Station Anacostia in a marginal area of the District of Columbia. Up and down, back and forth, up and down again ha -- Fun & Games in The Old Guard.

 

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Cadets of Marine Military Academy | Cadet Commanders Dinner

Cadet Battalion Cadet Senior Commanders | Academy USMC Commandant Colonel Residence

Cadet Battalion Staff Majors | Cadet Battalion Company Commander Captains

Steak Dinner & Ice Cream | Cadet Officers & Gentlemen | Harlington Texas Campus





This required cadet commander's dinner with the academy regular force brass is when you wish you went out for the swimming team instead of ROTC ha. The cross continent swim team. Or joined the chess club ha. Or quit school altogether. THE CADET COMMANDERS DINNER! omg.

As Col. Hill the academy superintendent joked in a weak humor before the sitdown of the uptight high schooler cadets, "I was told they'd rather be in the mess hall right now." To which the Marine Colonel commandant Dowling quipped "Yes, but here we have real meat." So everyone laughed, yeah. This video brings back my own personal horrors memories of ROTC cadet commanders dinners that felt like your last meal and testament.

At least it's not formal attire unlike the annual ROTC Ball of all ROTC services both high school and uni/college when you must wear the uniform and the gals wear dresses or skirts below the knee ha. These MMA cadet staff officers are in camo trousers and white t-shirt with Battalion Staff imprinted. Company commander cadet captains same except for the t-shirt that's imprinted with the name of the company he commands with its color -- Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and so on.

Worse yet ha the cadet stiffs staff officers sit on one side of the long rectangular table while the cadet company commanders who are leaders are segregated to the other side -- military rank and position, cadet force or regular force! (Good training.) Notably absent is the cadet commander of the battalion and XO who have their own dinner together with the faculty/academy brass. This dinner in this video is for the staff and company commanders with no higher up cadet ranks and positions to dominate attention instead.

It's just much better instead of course to go to a restaurant dinner with a member of the ROTC cadre faculty with three or so other invited cadets to relax and talk the significant stuff. It's informal, it's open, it's a small group who know each other on a daily basis and so on. It's a pleasant and productive experience that, above all else, is voluntary and not an artificial construct.

Very good for sure though on the MMA to record this and put it online. Cause it's real.

 

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Cadets of Marine Military Academy | Secondary School | Harlington Texas

Ceremony Welcoming Newly Trained Cadets | Integration Into The Cadet Battalion

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The video is of the graduation ceremony and oath taking of the new first year cadets who upon completion of their education and training are integrated into the battalion of cadets. Then comes the pass in review eyes right salute to the Academy Commandant USMC Colonel Dowling who we saw in the dinner video and the USMC Sgt.Maj of the Academy. The annual event occurs on the grass parade field that has a true and real sized replica of the Marine Corps War Memorial aka the Iwo Jima statue that is in the Military District of Washington DC.

The ceremony begins with the cadet battalion commander marching himself onto the field then commanding his BN staff of all stars to join him. We can see the cadet commander's two diamonds of ROTC rank indicating cadet/Lt.Col. The two diamonds are on his cun garrison cap and collars. ROTC cadet officers of the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force Civil Air Patrol use this rank system for c/officers. That is as follows:

It says Army ROTC yet it's true too for USMC and AF CAP in both high school and college ROTC. Navy ROTC cadet/officer rank uses one gold bar for each level of rank, ie, 1 bar is ensign and 6 bars is c/capt. All services ROTC cadet enlisted ranks are identical to the regular force EP ranks. Myself, in hs JROTC I was LTC BN XO and at uni/college c/Col. Brigade Commander. Ha, in hs JROTC I was appointed commander of the training BN which was easy because I had great trainers in each training company assigned by their company commanders who knew their charges. All I did was walk around and look like I was in charge ha. It was a valuable lesson for my later years in the Army double ha. (My Calorie Character Counter tells me I need to move along.)


The BN Adjutant of staff moves to the band to do as the narrator says, which saves me characters for sure as you can hear him. The Corps of Cadets (only) marches on to the field to National Emblem March by Sousa. Cadets hustling out on order are company guides who stake out the position of the company on the field. In the background are the 56 flags of the states and territories. The adjutant takes the report from cpy cmdrs. The adjutant then commands "Attention To Orders" which we all know well.

All BN c/officers march "Center Front" which is an anachronism that is used in modern times as a mere formality. That is, until the age of mass communication the commanders gave info to the officers they did not otherwise have. Few ROTC or regular force units use it in the present time except as a formality in ceremony. After the national anthem the new cadets march onto the field led by their chief trainer all star.

New cadets salute the anthem and take the pledge as approved by Marine Corps Training & Education Command. So, just looking at 'em, a senior year cadet officer can ID future prospects eh. Which is what I did in HS JROTC as TRNG BN CDR. The c/BN CDR orders fall out by company to which each new cadet is assigned already. At this point Col. Dowling and the Academy SgtMaj come forward to receive the pass in review salute. This c/CDR has an excellent pass in review command voice and tone. As per, the c/cdr and staff peel off after their salute to observe the corps of cadet do their pass in review. Cadet company commanders hear about it later ha.



Meanwhile here's the real thing at the real Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington VA on the opposite side of the Potomac from Washington and next to Arlington National Cemetery and just outside the South Gate of the Army Ft. Myer home of The Old Guard that I served in and attended some of these ceremonies and pass in review. This video has only the pass in review of the MC two companies of Infantry from the Marine Barracks in Washington and that serve as the USMC official ceremonial guard.

The march music is the National Emblem March then the Marine Corps Hymn. The first band is the Marine Drum & Bugle Corps and the tail end band is a detail of the USMC Official Band aka "The President's Own." It is the occasion of the birthday as they call it of the USMC, Nov. 10, 1775.

 

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"You have fundamentally changed modern warfare." --- Admiral Rob Bauer, Chairman NATO Military Committee, hosting military cadets visiting from Ukraine


NATO Military Staff Welcomes Ukrainian Cadets

On 14 November 2022, the Cooperative Security Division of the NATO International Military Staff IMS welcomed a group of Ukrainian university cadets to NATO Headquarters for briefings on NATO-Ukrainian military cooperation. The cadets were officially welcomed by the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer.

Welcoming the cadets, Admiral Bauer voiced his admiration for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who have been relentlessly and bravely fighting and pushing back the invading Russian forces. “Your strength and resilience have astounded the world. You have fundamentally changed modern warfare. We see it in the lightning speed and effectiveness with which you are using new weapons. And we see it in your strategic vision and practical, tactical brilliance. You outmanoeuvre your opponent time and time again, making impressive and encouraging progress”, he emphasised

The 25 Ukrainian cadets, selected from all nine Ukrainian Military Senior Academies, were introduced to NATO, its structure and core tasks. They were also briefed on the role of the IMS Cooperative Security Division, as the lead for all military cooperation within the NATO-Ukraine Partnership and on NATO’s Partnership Mechanisms and Tools. The visit was organised within the framework of the “Military Committee With Ukraine Work Plan” and aims to build awareness on the military-to-military partnership between NATO and Ukraine.


The group then visited Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe SHAPE to receive some complementary briefings on military cooperation, before travelling to the Ardennes, where they analysed WWII military engagements to draw lessons that can be applied today. “This is ultimately the reason for your visit to Belgium – to study and analyse past engagements, and identify your own lessons… that could apply to combat today, and that you could use in your future careers”, concluded Admiral Bauer.

Cadets of US allied nations are required by their programs to learn effective communication in English. While Ukraine
is not yet in NATO all Ukraine military cadets have become competent in English since the first Russian invasions of Ukraine,
2014. Many military cadets in Ukraine gained English language competency prior to then anyway. Many current military
commanders of Ukraine armed forces are fluent in English from their time as cadets or since.

Adm. Bauer of Netherlands orients Ukraine cadets on their highly successful visit to NATO HQ in November. Adm. Bauer
is former chief of defense staff of Netherlands. The US and NATO countries prohibit by law sending cadets into battle. The
workaround since World War II is to "accelerate" their programs and graduate 'em early.

 

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Ukrainian Cadets Visit to NATO HQ​

Adm. Bauer expresses his gratitude to Ukraine visiting military academies cadets for their tribute of mementoes during
their visit to NATO HQ in November.

Secondary academy cadets practice with gas masks during a lesson in a bomb shelter on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

NATO ceremony marking one-year of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine​

Speaking at NATO Headquarters on 24 February 2023 Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană said that NATO has
been Ukraine’s partner since it first gained independence over thirty years ago and that NATO will stand with Ukraine
for as long as it takes.

 

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Graduation Ceremony of the National Academy cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine in Kharkiv

Ukraine Army Chief Chaplain Speaks to ROTC cadets in New York Area and at West Point

Ukraine’s top army chaplain speaks about state of the war at Fordham: ‘Evil must be called evil’​

News from the front line was not good last week as Andriy Zelinskyy, S.J., the Ukraine army’s chief chaplain, spoke to an audience of primarily R.O.T.C. cadets at Fordham University: A mercenary army recently restocked with “recruits” from Russian prisons was closing a circle around Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, while in Washington a growing number of U.S. Congress members expressed skepticism about what they called the Biden administration’s “blank check” approach to support for Ukraine. Father Zelinskyy was on a hastily arranged four-day respite from the war in a visit to New York to speak to Fordham’s cadets and other R.O.T.C. cadets from the New York area. On March 3 he made another presentation to cadets at West Point.

Illinois US Army National Guard Task Force Illini’s Unit Ministry Team Staff Sgt. Gregory Baumgartner works with the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s Deputy Head of Military Chaplaincy, Father Andriy Zelinskyy in Ukraine in support of the ongoing Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine partnership. Even though an established Chaplaincy is relatively new in Ukraine there are already a number of experienced Ukrainian Chaplains due to ongoing conflicts in the east, but more is needed to properly prepare new Chaplains for service. (Photo by Sgt. Gregory Glosser Task Force Illini Public Affairs.)


His message to these young people, and to the professional U.S. Army chaplains also on hand at Fordham’s Keating Hall, was simple: Fight for the truth to be known about the war. Of his primary trade, he said, “Military chaplaincy is a very humble ministry. “It’s not about commanding great forces. It’s not about tactical or strategic achievements. It’s about a very humble, but very protective mission:” reflecting a person’s humanity back to them under extraordinary circumstances. On the battlefield, he said, a person’s best or worst qualities are revealed. “You can touch a human heart in a very special situation, very specific context. And… in the midst of the chaos, in the midst of combat, you can be a witness to something greater.”

Ukraine’s top army chaplain speaks about state of the war at Fordham: ‘Evil must be called evil’

Father Zelinskyy’s message to Fordham’s ROTC cadets and to U.S. Army chaplains was simple: Fight for the truth to be known about the war in Ukraine.

www.americamagazine.org

Cadets of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a televised speech by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 

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High School Cadets of Australian Defence Force

Australia Navy Cadets learn power boat operations under training of Australian Navy.







Cadets of Australia Army & Air Force | Graduation Parade & Ceremony | Melbourne High School

Hosted by School Principal | Reviewing Officer: Army Colonel Jason Cooke Former Commander of Cadets Victoria State

Pass in Review | Slow March Royal Salute | Quick March Salute To Reviewing Officer | Class of 2019

Ramsey Battalion




First is the classically British slow march pass in review royal salute, then immediately into the quick march pass in review to the reviewing officer, Col. Cook. The colonel is the invited reviewing officer of the graduating cadets, class of 2019, who know each other from Cooke's previous three years as commander of the 13 high school cadet battalions in Victoria State. It's quite the grand reunion of the colonel and the graduating cadets he appointed to their senior year positions of command and knew and oversaw their development over the previous three years.

There's the cadet in command and his two staff officers, at our right is the adjutant with the c/sergeant major bearing the command staff aka swagger stick. Army cadets with red sash are c/senior ncos while AF cadets with the blue sash are same. Marching in front of the Army c/company commanders is the cadet representation of the most fierce snco war fighter who protects the cpy cdr during battle. In the slow march pass by as the Brits call it are the upper class cadets only, ie, seniors and juniors. At the quick march pass by the upper class cadets are joined by the under class cadets of frosh and soph in their camos, commanded and led by senior year cadets.

In Australia cadet officers are also called Under Officers given they are not yet regular force officers. The colors unit has the Australia national standard flag with the Army colors and AF colors. The slow march music is the Royal Salute and the quick march music is the definitive Australian musical piece that many will recognize, Waltzing Matilda. This medium sized cadet band is very good btw, well balanced in its sound, led by the graduating c/DM Ryan Lee.

Cadets is a high school elective with credits toward graduation. Australian Defence Force Cadets programs have 28,000 voluntary members in high schools in all six states and two territories. ADFC is USA Junior ROTC by any other name.









Melbourne High School Cadets of Australian Defence Force Victoria State

Awards Presentations -- 12 | By Colonel Cooke | To Cadets of Each Year | Col. Cook Excellent and Succinct Remarks

Outstanding Company of the Year -- Major General Sir Alan Ramsey Trophy | Outstanding Cadet NCO

Outstanding Senior Cadet | Outstanding First Year Cadet






Australia Naval Cadets at Tall Ships Regatta Sydney Harbor Prepare To Set Sail For The Open Sea on their Tall Ship
Young Endeavour.






Melbourne High School Cadets of Australian Defence Force Victoria State

Cadet Graduating Class of 2019 Farewell | Final March Through The Ranks By Graduating Cadets

Ould Lang Syne | Rising Senior Cadets Assume Command of Cadet Battalion | March Off

 

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Let's conclude our visit to Australia at the Australia Defense Force Academy in the national capital, Canberra in the country's northeast area, nearby the Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef.

The video is of new cadets and their Year One Familiarization Training or YOFT that even West Point still calls Basic Combat Training ha. The video was produced last month at the academy.

While YOFT is routine the number of new cadets in this class is exceptional for its large number. It seems world events have motivated a larger number of young Aussies to join up in the defense of the nation. China and Russia especially of course. The AUKUS initiative too was announced in 2020.

The video doesn't give any numbers but it's obvious from another video showing the integration of the YO cadets into the corps of cadets that the number of the new cadets is almost equal to the existing number of cadets already at the academy. These new cadets almost double the total number of cadets at the ADFA.

In the other video I include in this post the Chief of Defense Staff said this is the largest group of new cadets in several years. This other vid below is 120 mins but I post it below if anyone wants to appreciate it -- in part or whole -- because I was pleased to find it was better than a 120 min video of a military ceremony and parade typically is. The general's remarks were concise and salient too.

In this video the new cadets of all services get their introduction to it all, to include some rehearsal for the integration ceremony video below.


Cadets of Australian Defense Force Academy | Year One Intake "Familiarization Training" | Canberra Capital of Australia

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Each year, the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) conducts an initial military training period, known as Year One Familiarisation training (YOFT). This initial six week training program introduces first year ADFA midshipmen and officer cadets to military life. Trainee officers undertake a varied training program during YOFT, including leadership development, physical training, adventure training, drill and ceremonial procedures, military law, weapons handling and field craft.










Australian Defence College

Integration Ceremony & Parade | New Cadets of Australian Defense Force Academy | Canberra Australia Feb. 4, 2023

Reviewing Officer: General Angus Campbell of the Army, Chief of Defense Force | Commandant of Academy AF 3-Star

Chief of Defense Force Parade | 4,839 views | Streamed Live on Feb 24, 2023




The 2023 Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) Parade held on 25 February 2023, at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. The CDF Parade is the official welcome to the Academy for this year’s intake of First Year Midshipmen and Officer Cadets and marked the end of their initial military training.

Cadets in all white are Navy, cadets with red leg stripe are Army, cadets with solid black trousers are Air Force. Australia has all cadets of all three services at one recently new campus which is the trend that the USA does not adopt given it has excellent existing facilities for each service. Besides, in USA armed forces an integrated combat force is the war fighting doctrine you get from your first cheery wake up.

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First cadet we see on the parade field is the cadet/Sergeant Major of BN who marches the existing corps of cadets onto the field. She turns the corps over to the cAdjutant to call out the new cadets who march onto the field by company already assigned. The Adjutant gal forms 'em up and turns the BN over to the c/XO who then presents the BN c/commander with her cadet command.

The single colors are marched out onto the field, that of the Governor General King's Viceroy of the Commonwealth of Australia. The GG isn't present but the flag is and it's the flag that establishes the presence of the King of England/UK, Charles III. The armed forces oath in Australia is to the King. (The oath is taken already.) Charles is of course still Prince of Wales until his coronation. Currently Charles is the Proclaimed King.

The CDF General inspects the first two ranks only which is a relief to everyone present and watching ha. Inspecting every cadet would be, well, shall we say, inconvenient to all ha. The video is narrated albeit not well however.

 

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Too late to edit the video of the Chief of Defense Force Parade:

The first almost 8 minutes of the 2nd video are a condensed rehash of the video above. So I jump to 7:45 for the Chief of Defense Force Parade.

 

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Cadets of US Army ROTC | Drexel University PA | Winter Field Training Exercises

Ft. Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania | Task Force Dragon | November 2021




Early November 2021, Drexel Army ROTC's Task Force Dragon (TFD) conducted their annual Field Training Exercise (FTX) held at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA. This VLOG gives a behind the scenes look at FTX.

Yeah well, the unit I was in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard of the Army, did FTX in the winter, given we spent the entire tourist season for Washington DC doing ceremonies. Officially speaking the Washington tourist season was from April 1st and the Cherry Blossom Festival week & its huge parade down Constitution Avenue to Oct 12th Columbus Day and its parades and stuff.

The whole of the regiment never went to winter FTX given there were always military honors funerals and other ceremonies throughout the winter. So three companies remained at Ft. Myer all the time while 4 companies went to the field -- in rotation. We went to Ft. AP Hill in central VA and since then the 3 IR also goes to Ft. Indiantown Gap in PA. Ha, we froze a lot out in the cold most of the hours of each 24 hour cycle week after week. It's required to qualify in your MOS annually, ie, 11 Infantry (one-one A=officer, B=enlisted).







Cadets of US Navy | Sea Cadet Corps | Band of the West -- San Francisco Department

Swing Music Medley Performance | US Naval Post Graduate School | Monterey California

The Only Sea Cadet Band in the USA










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Plebe Midshipmen US Naval Academy | Completion Parade and Ceremony

Six Weeks Summer Basic Training | Midshipmen Drum & Bugle Corps

USNA Professional Marching Band | Vice Admiral Commandant USNA





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*My son was one of them and he will be a lieutenant in May ! God bless America and these kids ! (That would be quite the feat ha, graduating USNA as an LT !)

*This awesome!

*This USNA fields the only US Military Academy drum and bugle Corps. The only active duty drum and bugle corps in our Armed Forces is stationed at Marine Barracks, Washington; The famous US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, "The Commandant's Own". It does more then 400 performances a year throughout the nation. For Plebes these young people are putting on one hell of fine review. "Bravo Zulu", USNA.

*I am very BIASED when it comes to Military dress and appearance. The Military Men are a lot better looking and impressive than the military women because of much taller height and physique, men have much wider and broader shoulders and backs than women, so it being a must that women in the military perform important professional jobs like Medical, Legal, Dental, Engineering, Educational Instructional Teaching, and so forth, the Military in no matter what Country will always, and forever be a Men's Military in a Male dominated Military World.

*The new coed USNA. Adds a whole new slant to -- "Sound off like you got a pair!!". Sorry.l

*Now they are admitting children in the navy ?

*Sized up from smallest to tallest for your viewing pleasure. The usual way is to size up a unit from the tallest to the shortest - but that would result in all the four foot females being hidden in the back of the formation and we can't have that. They reversed the usual practice so that the women would be in the front and on the right where they would be prominent on parade. Actually, this wasn't done for your viewing pleasure; it was done for the viewing pleasure of the feminist politicians who control military budgets and the fate of institutions like Annapolis.

*Yes you're right. Who's afraid of my 4 foot sister. The Iranians look at this and laugh.

*Most of these people will probably end up on ships or even behind a government desk. You don’t need to be a seven foot male to press a button and fire a missile. Women make great seafarers. Height and physical strength isn’t everything. Intelligence, cunning, leadership abilities, courage, attention to detail and an ability to think strategically is by no means limited to men.

 

[Sword 1944]

I was in the Sea Cadets for 4 years as a lad,and drummer in the band which i enjoyed,our instructor was a former Royal Marine Bandsman.

 

[Tangmo]

I was in the Sea Cadets for 4 years as a lad,and drummer in the band which i enjoyed,our instructor was a former Royal Marine Bandsman.

Congratulations and your video is a great one that I've watched several times over time. UK Sea Cadet bands kill it every time so great on 'em and their instructors who as you know volunteer.

UK Sea Cadets Massed Bands is the most impressive military cadet band in the world. Of that age range to play in the massed bands, 16-18.

Of course what you Brits call the massed bands -- a single unit assembled from throughout the SCC districts of the kingdom -- we in USA call a composite band. Regionally primarily, such as the USMC West Coast Composite Band that marches in the Rose Bowl Parade. It's drawn of Marine Corps musicians up and down the Pacific coast bases and out to Hawaii and Guam. They unify brilliantly.


This one is an all time favorite of mine that has me LMAO watching the Royal Marine cadet musicians right at the beginning. As you know SCC massed bands always have Royal Marine cadets in 'em and this massed bands practicing together at the Royal Marines School of Music has 8 or ten of 'em in their camos. The Royal Marine LT leading the band decided the two bands would play together for a while. Another LT genius idea ha.

Ha Ha.

So the SCC music director SCC LT/CDR Pattie Bowen Davies who's the large lady we also see at the beginning of the vid opened 'em up divided to receive the element of the RM Music School official band.

The camera focuses on the RM cadet drummer-buglers at the left front. The two in front are turning to the two in back of 'em to say -- and I'm taking a liberty of course but probably not off by much ha -- "Hey guys, if we stick together we can make a break for it now!" Then the camera focuses on the RM cadets at the right side so we can see 'em pissing their pants gawking ha.

The Band of the Royal Marines School of Music surprise these Sea Cadets and then join them on the march.




These YouTube martial music thingys rarely have the names of tunes, but I know I recognized, in sequence....

A Life on an Ocean Wave, official march and song of HMRM, marching in
Royal Salute?
Ready Aye Ready, motto and march tune of the UK SCC and of the Commonwealth SCC
Life on an Ocean Wave, march off

There are lots of comments of awe and praise in the comments section, which I'd sum up with these two:

*I was in this band, such an amazing experience to play alongside the best military band in the world!

*What an amazing experience for the cadets! What I would have given to be a cadet again just for that!




And this one of the SCC massed bands at a Birmingham Tattoo is just awesome....

Land of Hope and Glory Tattoo




I heard Royal Salute and marching off Ready Aye Ready.

The video blends into the Grand Finale with RAF Guards marching out the colors to the RAF March. As we see, the cadets participating in this tattoo are placed across the top/read of the formation, Army, Naval, RAF, with the SCC massed band divided (again ha) at the middle flanks.

 

[Sword 1944]

Congratulations and your video is a great one that I've watched several times over time. UK Sea Cadet bands kill it every time so great on 'em and their instructors who as you know volunteer.

UK Sea Cadets Massed Bands is the most impressive military cadet band in the world. Of that age range to play in the massed bands, 16-18.

Of course what you Brits call the massed bands -- a single unit assembled from throughout the SCC districts of the kingdom -- we in USA call a composite band. Regionally primarily, such as the USMC West Coast Composite Band that marches in the Rose Bowl Parade. It's drawn of Marine Corps musicians up and down the Pacific coast bases and out to Hawaii and Guam. They unify brilliantly.


This one is an all time favorite of mine that has me LMAO watching the Royal Marine cadet musicians right at the beginning. As you know SCC massed bands always have Royal Marine cadets in 'em and this massed bands practicing together at the Royal Marines School of Music has 8 or ten of 'em in their camos. The Royal Marine LT leading the band decided the two bands would play together for a while. Another LT genius idea ha.

Ha Ha.

So the SCC music director SCC LT/CDR Pattie Bowen Davies who's the large lady we also see at the beginning of the vid opened 'em up divided to receive the element of the RM Music School official band.

The camera focuses on the RM cadet drummer-buglers at the left front. The two in front are turning to the two in back of 'em to say -- and I'm taking a liberty of course but probably not off by much ha -- "Hey guys, if we stick together we can make a break for it now!" Then the camera focuses on the RM cadets at the right side so we can see 'em pissing their pants gawking ha.

The Band of the Royal Marines School of Music surprise these Sea Cadets and then join them on the march.




These YouTube martial music thingys rarely have the names of tunes, but I know I recognized, in sequence....

A Life on an Ocean Wave, official march and song of HMRM, marching in
Royal Salute?
Ready Aye Ready, motto and march tune of the UK SCC and of the Commonwealth SCC
Life on an Ocean Wave, march off

There are lots of comments of awe and praise in the comments section, which I'd sum up with these two:

*I was in this band, such an amazing experience to play alongside the best military band in the world!

*What an amazing experience for the cadets! What I would have given to be a cadet again just for that!




And this one of the SCC massed bands at a Birmingham Tattoo is just awesome....

Land of Hope and Glory Tattoo




I heard Royal Salute and marching off Ready Aye Ready.

The video blends into the Grand Finale with RAF Guards marching out the colors to the RAF March. As we see, the cadets participating in this tattoo are placed across the top/read of the formation, Army, Naval, RAF, with the SCC massed band divided (again ha) at the middle flanks.

Thanks for the great vids,takes me back but to be honest we were not quite as good as the kids in your vids,but we enjoyed playing at different events on the Weekend,i would bring my drum home on Friday nights after our usual meeting with the cadets,then spend hours cleaning all my uniform kit,my dad was a former Coldstream Guardsman,he said i will teach you how to get all that brass and your boots shining and spotless,good memories.

 

[Rogue Valley]

These days he specializes in posting Russian propaganda.

Especially regarding Putin's War in Ukraine. A search of his posts in the Russia/Ukraine/Belarus forum will confirm this.

 

[Tangmo]

These days he specializes in posting Russian propaganda.

Especially regarding Putin's War in Ukraine. A search of his posts in the Russia/Ukraine/Belarus forum will confirm this.

I've been two weeks posting daily against his Putin posts at various threads. Till then I never saw anything of him. But I know him now guaranteed and he's better at it than than most of 'em. No problem for me thx anyway.

It's good I can talk cadets with him, especially his having been in his UK district Sea Cadet Corps band. Four years he said, a drummer. Good on him for that.

He said his father was a Coldstream Guard and here I was in the Old Guard of the Army 3 IR in MDW, 5th Army. The 3 IR since 1784 btw. Member of TOG Association TOGA of Old Guard veterans only who meet annually at Ft. Myer.

I appreciate your stopping in at my thread as all cadets of USA and allied nations I am certain do also. I've posted about Ukraine cadets and I have more for sure in the post Covid bank. The guy is one who kept me from here for a while but then again he brought me back here anyway. A full circle kind of thingy. Fear not because when anyone might be coming at me with a weapon I know what to do and how. Training, to include in the 3 IR TOG.

 

[Sword 1944]

I've been two weeks posting daily against his Putin posts at various threads. Till then I never saw anything of him. But I know him now guaranteed and he's better at it than than most of 'em. No problem for me thx anyway.

It's good I can talk cadets with him, especially his having been in his UK district Sea Cadet Corps band. Four years he said, a drummer. Good on him for that.

He said his father was a Coldstream Guard and here I was in the Old Guard of the Army 3 IR in MDW, 5th Army. The 3 IR since 1784 btw. Member of TOG Association TOGA of Old Guard veterans only who meet annually at Ft. Myer.

I appreciate your stopping in at my thread as all cadets of USA and allied nations I am certain do also. I've posted about Ukraine cadets and I have more for sure in the post Covid bank. The guy is one who kept me from here for a while but then again he brought me back here anyway. A full circle kind of thingy. Fear not because when anyone might be coming at me with a weapon I know what to do and how. Training, to include in the 3 IR TOG.

The way i see it,many of us don't agree on many things including the war in Ukraine,but that shouldn't stop us having conversations on many other topics we may even agree on some of them,and yes my late father served with the Coldstream Guards in WW2,if you look at my avatar its the emblem of the British Guards Armoured Division,as for cadets don't know if its the same in America but we went to Royal Navy shore bases for two weeks on holiday if you can call it that it was probably tougher than a juvenile prison for the two weeks Lol! i went to three and enjoyed it.

Guards Armoured Division - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Luce]

Is Tangmo talking to himself again?

Yes, he hasn't yet caught on to the subtle hints that nobody cares and nobody is reading his pathetic bullshit.

 

[Luce]

Wait. Apparently Ginza cares.

 

[Tangmo]

The way i see it,many of us don't agree on many things including the war in Ukraine,but that shouldn't stop us having conversations on many other topics we may even agree on some of them,and yes my late father served with the Coldstream Guards in WW2,if you look at my avatar its the emblem of the British Guards Armoured Division,as for cadets don't know if its the same in America but we went to Royal Navy shore bases for two weeks on holiday if you can call it that it was probably tougher than a juvenile prison for the two weeks Lol! i went to three and enjoyed it.

Guards Armoured Division - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah and the common experience of cadets is global although one is close to cadets of allied nations such as in this instance, UK-USA -- to include for NATO nation cadets, cadets in Ukraine. You mention your late father was in the elite Coldstream Guards during WW II and I was in the Army Honor Guard in Washington and although that was long ago, it's still the same outfit doing the same duties.

I was in high school Army Junior ROTC and uni Army officer commissioning ROTC then did four years of continuous active duty in Infantry, my first choice. That's 12 years of military stuff before I was 30 so it stays memorable. Uni ROTC involved annual summer vaca camp while in hs we had summers free. Since the All Volunteer Force ROTC enrollment shrunk concomitant with the reduction in armed forces strength during conscription.

With the AVF cadets in hs ROTC of all services are more committed on the whole than before the AFV came in. The typical hs ROTC "retention rate" of cadets who continue into the armed forces on graduation is 30% across the services except for Air Force cadets, 50% of whom enter service on graduation from hs. Each figure is highly welcomed by the Pentagon although they don't do much encouraging, focusing on producing better citizens instead. Cadets today have a myriad of things we never had to include annual summer camp for hs cadets too, in addition to annual summer camp for uni ROTC cadets.

Army has its national Junior (hs) ROTC Ranger Battalion of volunteers in the units who compete in field exercises at the local, county, state and national level. Navy cadets have their national "Super Bowl" competitions that are academic, drill and physical-athletic -- again Naval Sea Cadets compete from the local and state level up to the annual nationals; Naval Sea Cadets include US Coast Guard. AF cadets in high schools have their rounds of competition too. All ROTC have their annual ball which is formal and in some instances such as the unit I was in a Drill & Ball when company drill teams competed at the ball.

When I was in hs ROTC a hundred years ago ha the cadre instructors were regular active duty force on assignment; since the AVF hs cadre are typically retired who get extra bucks from the school budget in addition to retirement pay. Uni ROTC cadre are always full time active duty on assignment, since Year One in 1919. Almost all of my lifelong friends are from ROTC and who did active duty military service.


This is from last year's USN Junior ROTC National Challenge in Academics, Drill, Athletics-Physical. This is the 1st place armed precision drill team of Troy High School West Coast Warriors in California. The national competition is at the Naval Air Station Pensacola FL -- awards are presented at the Naval Aviation Museum there. The competition has 26 finalist high schools of the 630 USN Junior ROTC units in the country.


Armed Drill Exhibition | Troy High School USN Junior ROTC | National Champion




There's not much left to say.

 

[Sword 1944]

Yeah and the common experience of cadets is global although one is close to cadets of allied nations such as in this instance, UK-USA -- to include for NATO nation cadets, cadets in Ukraine. You mention your late father was in the elite Coldstream Guards during WW II and I was in the Army Honor Guard in Washington and although that was long ago, it's still the same outfit doing the same duties.

I was in high school Army Junior ROTC and uni Army officer commissioning ROTC then did four years of continuous active duty in Infantry, my first choice. That's 12 years of military stuff before I was 30 so it stays memorable. Uni ROTC involved annual summer vaca camp while in hs we had summers free. Since the All Volunteer Force ROTC enrollment shrunk concomitant with the reduction in armed forces strength during conscription.

With the AVF cadets in hs ROTC of all services are more committed on the whole than before the AFV came in. The typical hs ROTC "retention rate" of cadets who continue into the armed forces on graduation is 30% across the services except for Air Force cadets, 50% of whom enter service on graduation from hs. Each figure is highly welcomed by the Pentagon although they don't do much encouraging, focusing on producing better citizens instead. Cadets today have a myriad of things we never had to include annual summer camp for hs cadets too, in addition to annual summer camp for uni ROTC cadets.

Army has its national Junior (hs) ROTC Ranger Battalion of volunteers in the units who compete in field exercises at the local, county, state and national level. Navy cadets have their national "Super Bowl" competitions that are academic, drill and physical-athletic -- again Naval Sea Cadets compete from the local and state level up to the annual nationals; Naval Sea Cadets include US Coast Guard. AF cadets in high schools have their rounds of competition too. All ROTC have their annual ball which is formal and in some instances such as the unit I was in a Drill & Ball when company drill teams competed at the ball.

When I was in hs ROTC a hundred years ago ha the cadre instructors were regular active duty force on assignment; since the AVF hs cadre are typically retired who get extra bucks from the school budget in addition to retirement pay. Uni ROTC cadre are always full time active duty on assignment, since Year One in 1919. Almost all of my lifelong friends are from ROTC and who did active duty military service.


This is from last year's USN Junior ROTC National Challenge in Academics, Drill, Athletics-Physical. This is the 1st place armed precision drill team of Troy High School West Coast Warriors in California. The national competition is at the Naval Air Station Pensacola FL -- awards are presented at the Naval Aviation Museum there. The competition has 26 finalist high schools of the 630 USN Junior ROTC units in the country.


Armed Drill Exhibition | Troy High School USN Junior ROTC | National Champion




There's not much left to say.

Interesting stuff,these days the cadets have far more resources than we had,several of my friends in the cadets served in the Royal navy,i intended joining the Merchant Navy as a radio operator and communications,but life took a different path because i could not get into the college where they trained the radio operators,so i ended up serving an apprenticeship as a TV and radio technician,but i did several jobs after in my life,i actually bumbed into one of the guys who i was in the cadets with in our local Supermarket a few weeks ago,had not seen him in many years,he was always the joker and i thought he would never settle into anything,but he did 22 years in the Royal Navy and ended as a Chief PO,just goes to show can't always judge people.

 

[Fledermaus]

Yes, he hasn't yet caught on to the subtle hints that nobody cares and nobody is reading his pathetic bullshit.

I drop in every few months to see how many real veterans "liked" the posts.

Zero for years now.