Military Cadet Thread Extension

[braindrain]

As reliable as the sun rising in the east.

Tangmo gets embarrassed in another thread so he must run to his safe spot.

How sad.

 

[Tangmo]

Hong Kong Combined Cadet Corps includes the military ones but also other civic groups such as Ambulance Corps, Traffic Safety Corps and other such groups.

This post focuses on the cadets and other youth groups in HKG who continue to resist in mostly quiet ways but who, as in the first video, resist before our eyes in a daring do defiance of Beijing. In the middle school swim meet parents in the stands begin singing the Hong Kong Protest Anthem, "Glory To Hong Kong."

There are lots of praiseworthy comments I don't have space for however.

Cadets of Hong Kong | The Combined 14 Youth Cadet Corps​

Reject PLA Goosestep March | Of The People's Liberation Army​

May 4th Day Celebration | In 1919 China Refused To Sign The Treaty of Versailles




The CCP "Liaison" Office in Hong Kong recently asked 14 military cadet youth groups to abandon the historic and traditional British March Manual to instead adopt the goosestep used by the People’s Liberation Army. But, at a flag-raising ceremony on May 4, only one of the groups complied with the request. We see instead each cadet unit except one continue to march to the British Manual amid a mass of the Hong Kong Flag of 5 white flower pedals on a red background in the audience of parents.

Any HKG youth group in uniform and that has a chain of command is included in the Combined Cadet Corps of Hong Kong since early in British Colonization. The cadet groups and their adult leaders and sponsors said the British Manual is their autonomous cultural and historic custom and tradition that needs to be honored and respected.

As quoted in the Singapore Straits-Times, "We've been using British foot drills all this time. We don't have any plan to change them," said Colonel Matthew Wong of the Hong Kong Adventure Corps (HKAC), adding that they reflect the group's traditions and cultural background. HKAC was set up by some former staff of the Royal Hong Kong Infantry Regiment of Volunteers (1854-1995) who had remained after Britain handed the city back to China in 1997.

CCP DictatorTyrants got a blast in the ass on this one ha ha.






The Hong Kong police cadets being the miserable fascists that they are sucked it right up of course....

Hong Kong Middle School Swimming Spectators Sing​

'Glory to Hong Kong' Protest Song During Swim Meet​

CCP BoyZ in Beijing got problems in HKG still eh. These are all kids and their young parents. Today's kid, tomorrow's revolutionary. Today's parent, tomorrow's protest support system. Because while history doesn't repeat itself it sure rhymes a lot. It's why there are songs and poetry btw.

 

[Tangmo]

Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Brigade Youth Command


The protest song Glory To Hong Kong keeps being sung throughout Hong Kong, to include by parents at school sporting events as well as in other gatherings. The frustrated -- and furious -- CCP has gone to court in HKG demanding an injunction to prohibit it being sung. The CCP are cussing the song as "insurrectionist" and "seditious." Which is exactly what it is of course and more power to it.

When the CCP-PRC national anthem began to be played a bunch of young Hongkongers rushed the field with the HKG SAR flag and connected to the public announcement system sang Glory To Hong Kong. The CCP went head over heels furious and the heroes scattered to escape 'em via preplanned routes and waiting vehicles.





The HKG puppet government of the city has declared the protest song illegal, insurrectionist and seditious. If this were the mainland, and aside from the fact this doen't happen there, the CCP National Security Police would move in and bust you up in a total news blackout.

However HKG is not a province of the CCP-PRC. The city is a Special Administrative Region -- SAR -- of the CCP-PRC. Because of the city's 100 years as British, it did retain many Anglo freedoms, rights, protections against government. While the lying and cynical CCP BoyZ in Beijing vowed -- cross their heart -- 50 years of it, Hongkongers had to mass demonstrate to stop the CCP mainland school curriculum being installed. Now that curriculum that includes one party rule as nirvana is fully in place.


The HKG Rugby Sevens is a huge Asia event of super high interest throughout the region with legions of fans ha.






Even the HKG Police Cadet Corps who are not part of the HKG Police College -- as seen in the 1st video above -- continue to march by the British Manual that the British English speaking population of the city call the British "foot drill." This particular Police Cadet Corps is one of the 14 cadet uniformed and chain of command cadet corps of the Combined Corps of Cadets in HKG.

Hong Kong National Police Cadet Corps

After the CCP's massacre of democracy in HKG the BoyZ still have to tread carefully with the adult population so many of whose high school and university age population fled the city to continue their studies abroad. Tens of thousands of HKG youth have fled to schools and universities in Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, UK; the US & Canada. Younger siblings, parents, teachers and the population in general are more than displeased to see HKG deteriorate into what Beijing said several years ago, ie, "Hong Kong will be just another Chinese City." In other words a shithole of cultural and intellectual depravity and businesses run by the CCP as they are on the mainland since Xi Jinping.



The Boys’ Brigade, Hong Kong

 

[Tangmo]

Some of the cadet uniformed groups that also have a chain of command, and are of the 14 HKG Combined Corps of Cadets, are also identified in this post.

The HKG protest song that many people consider to be the HKG national anthem is presented, with comments by its composer.

Last month the HKG High Court denied the SAR-CCP petition to prohibit this song being performed or played. The rallying song of democracy and freedom, Glory To Hong Kong, which is by the people, continues to be of the people and for the people. CCP which is failing in Beijing is screwed again in HKG.

Glory To Hong Kong








Scout Association of Hong Kong





The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association





The CAS Cadet Corps

 

[Tangmo]

Red Cross Youth





Hong Kong Road Safety Association


Most of these and other "uniformed groups" have their origin from the 100 years of Hong Kong being British and promoting civic activism and Christian good works. The British colonial flag being shown in HKG explodes heads in Beijing every time. It makes the BoyZ wretch. And now there's the song too.

 

[Tangmo]

A rock of the much larger and heavily fortified Kinmen Island of Taiwan 6 miles from the mainland city of Xiamen. I visited Xiamen and an island resort which is the time I learned about the 1949 Battle of Kinmen disaster for the PLA.

In August 1949 Chiang Kai Shek's nationalist forces decimated a PLA makeshift invasion force of 10,000 Maoist troops. Chiang's forces used American Stuart tanks to destroy the PLA commandeered boats that were caught by the low tide of the island. Nationalist machine gunners slew 5000 PLA troops trying to reach the shore on foot.



Cadets of Taiwan Army NCO Academy | Special Event Training Exercise | To Kinmen Island

Deliver Emergency Stocks and Supplies | To Kinmen Island 6 Miles Offshore of the CCP-PRC

During PLA Naval and Air Exercises | Over The Horizon | In The Taiwan Strait








Cadets of Canada Navy | Cadet Complement Crew | His UK Majesty's Canadian Ship Quadra

Summer Training Program | Canadian Armed Forces Base | Quadra, British Columbia

Ceremony of the Flags | Guard of Honor | Gun Crews of Boar War Cannons

Flags of the Canada 13 Provinces & Territories




The Ceremony of the Flags is a Sea Cadet event only that was devised when in 1907 Canada became the Canadian Federation which agreed to more home rule within the UK Commonwealth of Nations and under the British Crown. Australia has in contrast remained the Commonwealth of Australia with the British monarch as head of state, ie, a tighter arrangement.

The Ceremony presents the unity and the diversity of the Canadian Federation in North America -- a diversity which UK avoided for a long time but now has become overrun, as in Londonistan.

The March On music is Voice of The Guns (cannon) by Maurice Jarre from his academy award winning soundtrack to the 1960 movie Lawrence of Arabia which was best picture by Director David Lean. The Pass in Review is the signature march and song of the Royal British Navy, Heart of Oak. The band dominates the first third of the vid, to include the slow march of the Royal Salute. The group of civilians at the end of the Pass in Review are cadet alumni who march well but then again they don't have rifles ha.

Ep 19: All for One -- Every Singaporean Son - The Making of an Officer​

Ministry of Defence Singapore


Officer Cadet Infantry Platoon | Assault Course | Army of the Republic of Singapore

Two Platoons Compete: Alpha v Bravo | To Get The Bragging Rights

It's When You Find Out You Can Do More Than You Thought You Could Do

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Just how strong is your platoon? The Infantry Platoon Assault Course may provide some telling answers. Watch the Infantry cadets sweat it out in this seminal inter-platoon challenge.

The video follows Bravo platoon throughout. The two platoons are scored at each station and timed for the course, but it's time that rules. The two platoons finished 3 seconds apart in a hellova finish.

As a reminder, it's a 36 week course and the officer cadets are selected at the completion of Basic Combat Training. You're ordered to become an officer, which is the same for the NCO 16 week course to become a Specialist which is what NCO are in the SAF. So while most who are volunteered selected ha go with the flow, some are gung ho, and some other cadets have their doubts. There is no doubt though this course is in week 5, on day 35.

 

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[Tangmo]

Cadets of Singapore Army Officer Training Course | Armor Platoon Commander | Live Fire Test Exercise

Platoon of 4 German Leopard 2 Main Battle Tanks | Cadet James Is Designated Platoon Leader

Cadet Shawn Is a Designated Tank Commander | The Armor Captain in Charge Is a Tough Dude

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Done with the basic stuff, the Armour cadets in training move on to commanding a tank platoon in a live-firing exercise. James commits a number of mistakes as he takes command for the first time. Watch explosive fast action as James tries to put things right.

Armor officer cadet James who we see in the frame and whom we haven't seen till now takes his turn as commander of a tank platoon of the Singapore Leopard 2 main battle tanks from Germany, which are the tank force of the SAF.

In most serious armed forces to include US Strategic Partner Singapore a tank platoon has four tanks. James shows his hot stuff as a tank platoon commander the second and final time around. The strict and tough regular armored force captain in charge impresses these cadets seriously throughout.

Shawn who we saw in the previous tank video sweating and struggling his way through learning to drive a tank is now the designated commander of his tank. Shawn is definitely on top of his stuff at this point, yes.





Cadets of Singapore Officer Candidate School | Confirm And Debunk Stereotypes About Them




This Singapore Army officer cadet video is a 'survey says' kind of informal, light hearted and comical time about the officer cadets of their 36 week course personal and social characteristics and traits in society. It's what the survey says and what the cadets say about themselves. True or false. For instance, does your girlfriend wear your shirt? Are officer candidates fit? And so on.





Cadets of the Singapore Officer Training Course | On the Firing Range | Zero Their Rifles

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[Tangmo]

Cadets Graduation | Royal Military College Australia | Duntroon | Class 123

Australia Defense Force Army | Review By Army General Chief of Force | Class of '87



This excellent graduation parade pass in review is executed according to the British Army Manual given Australia is a Commonwealth Country of Great Britain, the UK. It is an all cadet parade. Music is by the Official Australian Army Band. It's the standard pass in review according to the British Manual, ie, slow march then quick march in two times around. The video production is well done indeed.

The day is sunny, bright, beautiful although the large audience of family etc sit in the heat panting with their tongues hanging out ha. The graduating cadets look like it's 60 degrees instead. In The Old Guard you can take scissors to your shirt to cut it off from the shoulder blade bottom to relieve that ever increasing feeling out there you're going to spontaneously combust.







Ministry of Defence Singapore

Episode 11: Suit Up For EOD​

Cadets of Singapore Officer Training Course | Final Test​

To Become An Officer of Explosive Ordinance Disposal | Time Is Of The Essence

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Ganesh and Kelvin both want to become Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officers. But first, they have to pass a selection test by which only 4 cadets will be chosen. Will either of them get selected?

Cadets are tested performing in their protection suit for their ease in it -- one can't be distracted in bomb disposal work because you're not at ease with the suit. Each Kelvin and Ganesh get run ragged in their suits, having to climb across tables then under 'em, hustle up stairs and walk the plank as it were for balance. All of it is timed besides and you must pass at every station.

The sitdown part while perspiring in your suit is to assemble a Rubik's Cube of separate wooden jigsaw parts while the judge captain asks you potentially distracting questions such as ha, what's your serial number backwards. Ganesh finished 10% of his cube and was still smiling while Kelvin finished 90% ending with a mishap ha. Kelvin is his usual expressive self to include OMG, OMG, OMG.





Sea Cadets of US Navy | Summer Training Camp | Geneva Florida

300 Cadets | 30 Trainers | 4 Week Program ​

Rear Admiral Andrew Lennon, Executive Director USN SCC ​

The camp has several stations of specialized education and training for the cadets who are eager and enthusiastic.

 

[Tangmo]

Norwich University Armed Forces Color Guard, Department of Defense Senior ROTC Program of All Services, Northfield Vermont. All cadets of all services wear the University common uniform for special events.


Cadets of All Services ROTC | Freshman Class Oath Taking | Pass in Review

Norwich University Northfield Vermont | "Serve, Act, Lead"




Norwich supports all services of ROTC to include Space Force and is one of the Pentagon's six "senior" ROTC programs in the country. That is, its officer training programs are full time residential and have government service academy discipline 24/7. Additionally senior ROTC colleges have a very large corps of cadets -- Norwich has 2600 cadets.

Norwich is the consistently 1st ranked senior ROTC college nationally by the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation. The five senior ROTC programs after Norwich are: The Citadel Military College of South Carolina, Virginia Military Institute, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech and North Georgia College.

Founded in 1812, Norwich Military College was the model that Congress used to establish the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, in 1819. Music is by the cadet band. At the end we see the Army Company of new cadets at attention on the road while their senior cadet trainers gather to figure which way to the mess hall ha.





Every Singaporean Son

Step Up And Be A Leader | Field Situational Test | Taking Charge ​

Singapore Armed Forces | Cadet Officer Training Program | 36 Weeks

Every Singapore Military Officer is "Hand Made"

"They told us where we would sleep. When we got there all I saw was puddles. I though they were joking."

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Do you have what it takes to be a leader? The Situational Test SITEST may provide some answers. Watch Kenneth, Nabil and Thiaghu awake from a fitful night's sleep on muddy ground to a day of fresh challenges.

Thaiaghu says there's a level of excitement and while there's not a high level of confidence they'll see what each day brings. Kenneth says he just wants to go with the flow and get through the day, each day, the program. Nabil says his approach is to "just do it" because if you think too much about it then the tendency is to second guess yourself on the spot. Each of 'em though says he'd like to go to post commissioning OCS after this if he's invited. Although these speakers are more clear than most I left on the closed captions.

Sea Cadets US Navy | Arlington National Cemetery ​

Wreath Laying Ceremony | Tomb of Unknown Soldier ​

Mar 27, 2023



USN Sea Cadet Corps is a community based program for youth ages 10-18 to experience a measure of life in the armed forces.

Sea Cadets are young men and women aged 10 through the end of high school who choose adventure, seek challenges, and step outside of their comfort zones. There are two programs within Sea Cadets. The Navy League Cadet Corps NLCC is for middle school students aged 10 to 13. The Naval Sea Cadet Corps NSCC is for ages 13 through the end of high school. All cadets must be in good academic standing at their sponsoring schools.

USN and US Coast Guard Sea Cadets form 396 units across the USA include 12,002 members, of which 2,871 are cadet officers and 9,131 cadets are categorized as enlisted personnel. The mission of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps program is to build leaders of character by imbuing in our cadets the highest ideals of honor, respect, commitment, and service to country.

Sea Cadets is the Navy’s youth development program. We give middle school and high school students skills, knowledge and confidence to become great Americans. We offer an amazing variety of training opportunities, and our cadets work as teams in a disciplined environment. Sea Cadets are well prepared for life because of the wide variety of challenging experiences open to them including aviation, navigation, law enforcement, medical, journalism, robotics, STEM, SCUBA, cyber, and even culinary. These fun, hands-on experiences let young people step outside of their comfort zones and grow personally.

USN/USCG "retention rate" of those cadets who continue on to military service is 30%. This is typical across the US community cadet corps of all services except for the Air Force cadets whose "retention rate" is 50%.

 

[Tangmo]

This post presents the UK Sea Cadets in their annual commemoration of the British Naval victory in the Battle of Trafalgar against the French and Spanish fleets in 1802. Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson was among those who lost their lives in achieving the decisive historical triumph. The Sea Cadets are honored and distinguished to represent the Royal Navy and the nation on this great anniversary occasion.

There's also a video of the Sea Cadets and other cadet force participants arriving at the pre-ceremony assembly area, which is Horse Guards Parade Grounds behind the square. Once a troop of Horse Guards marches onto the field the cadets begin arriving in small groups, going first for the attendant Horse Guards.

The third video is of the fascinating assembly of a water bridge by Army cadets of the Singapore Armed Forces. It's the Bridge Engineering lane of the 36 week course all officer cadets take to become commissioned, to include a number of 'em becoming Army engineers.


Pass In Review

UK Sea Cadets | National Trafalgar Annual Ceremony Commemoration

Trafalgar Square London | October 22, 2023 | All UK Sea Cadet Districts Represented

Post COVID Sea Cadet National Band | And Post COVID Cadet Force | Full Strength





The March Past as the Brits call it and each music piece for each cadet service branch is identified as follows. Each cadet service, Sea Cadets, Royal Marines Cadets, Army Force Cadets pass in review to the signature march of each actual service.

Heart of Oak: Sea Cadets 18th Guards With Union Banner
On The Quarterdeck: 4 Sea Cadet Platoons from UK Districts
A Life On An Ocean Wave: Two Platoons of Cadet Royal Marines Districts
British Grenadiers: Army Force Cadet Platoon, Southeast District
Sea Cadets Physical Training Program Demonstration Team
Cadet Orderlies
Event Admin. & Exe. staff and commander.
Ready Aye Ready, Signature March of the Sea Cadets, National Band Pass in Review




UK Cadet Assembly Area | Horse Guards Parade Grounds | Behind Trafalgar Square

All Cadet Units Arrive By Buses | Cadets of Each Service Mingle | Form Up - March Out







Every Singaporean Son

Water Warriors | Cadets of Singapore Army | Officer Candidate School

Becoming A Combat Engineering Officer Testing | Cadet Ganesh

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Recall that Kelvin and Ganesh qualified to become officers of Explosive Ordinance Disposal and now Ganesh is in final testing to also qualify as a Combat Bridging Engineer. Ganesh soon learns that his job involves much more than a good sense of balance while giving hand and arm signals. Find out what it takes to assemble a tactical floating metal bridge on water.

This quickly became more interesting than I had imagined. All the workers are Bridging Engineer officer candidates as each of 'em has to show they know every part of this fascinating thingy. So what happens when two cadet operated assembly barges need to join but one comes in even a bit too hard ha.

 

[Tangmo]

In the front row Gen. Brown of ROTC L becomes chairman JCS, succeeding Gen. Milley of ROTC R. The second row are the service secretaries. 3rd row are current Joint Chiefs, with Gen. Smith second from left. Back row has the command sergeant major/NCO of each service.

Five of the total eight current members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are ROTC commissioned to include Chairman Brown (bottom left front) and the Vice Chairman Adm. Grady (far right in white). Then out going Gen. Milley bottom right was commissioned from (Princeton) ROTC. Milley's predecessor as chairman Marine Gen. Dunford is ROTC.

Cadets Japan Ground Self-Defense Force | Officer Candidate School​

69th Anniversary Parade & Tug of War Competition | "Simple Robust Upright"




Martial Music by the Japan Air SDF Band of Liberty:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Tripolar
Battalion March JSDF

The review ceremony and the traditional tug-of-war was held on the 65th anniversary of the Ground Self-Defense Force Officer Candidate School in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. So this is not the Ground SDF prep academy I'm used to presenting which is next to the JSDF Military Academy at the Yokosuka US-Japan Naval Base in Tokyo Bay. These cadets put one year in at OCS to become 2LTs and take it from there. Many go on to further education and advancement. They certainly have the spirit and commitment to it as we see in the tug of war contest. The School commander and staff lead on the field as the review is taken by the commanding general of the Southwest Self Defense Force District. Since Covid there's been a paucity of military cadet videos online even at the most prolific websites.

Corps of Cadets | Texas A&M Military College​

Veterans Day Review | 11-11-11- 23 | Review Ceremony​

In this video the Texas Aggie Military College Corps Of Cadets march in review on Veterans Day at Simpson Drill Field on November 11, 2023. The Corps noted that Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith is an alum of Texas A&M and we wish him well in his recovery from the Tuberville inflicted heart attack. Gen. Smith makes regular visits to the Corps of Cadets and its full time residential Senior ROTC officer training campus of the Army, Navy/Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force.

The first music is the US Army "General's March" salute to the Commandant General who is retired. (Each service has its General's or Admiral's March.) Then the national anthem. (I had to turn up my volume.)

The European derived and traditional Officers Center is all the cadet officers and unit guidon (colors) to salute the National Standard Colors and each Service Colors. Pass in Review. First up of course is the Cadet Colonel commanding the Army Cadet Brigade and his staff of cadet colonel all stars (3 Diamonds rank insignia, from the Brits). Cadet regiment commanders, battalion commanders, companies. The lone cadet ha marching behind each staff is the sergeant major. This video is of the Army cadet brigade only (there are two more videos ).

In WW II TX A&M had more commissioned officers in the war than the government service academies combined, and the most of any single college ROTC program nationally, 12,000. The current corps of cadets has 2700 members. Since ROTC was enacted in 1917 it has graduated more than 1,000,000 new officers, 2LT or Ensign. The Citadel has produced 293 general and flag officers as of June 30, 2017. VMI had produced 265 as of 2006. The University of Oregon has produced the highest number of 4-star general officers out of the civilian ROTC schools, with a total of 47.




Cadets of Texas A&M | Veterans Day 2023

Parson's Mounted Calvary | Texas Aggie Band ​

The Aggie band sure has a lot of members eh.

 

[Sword 1944]

These are sea Cadets at HMS Excellent Royal Navy shore base whale Island Portsmouth, as a 14 year old sea cadet i spent two weeks there, it was a Gunnery school, and the boys had the chance to fire a Bofors Gun, it looks like it has not changed in many years since i was there.

 

[Sword 1944]

This was the massed sea Cadet Bands at the Trafalgar day parade last month in London, they put on a great display, i must say things have come a very long way since i was a side drummer with the sea cadets as a teenager, wish we could have had all those instruments, we had to beg borrow and steal for second hand instruments, most drums we had were ex military brass snare drums,one good thing we had going for us our drum instructor was a former Royal Marine bandsman, but to be honest the kids in the video are better than we were.

 

[Tangmo]

Cadets Japan National Defense Academy | Naval Brigade | Annual Cutter Rowing Race

Tokyo Bay | 4 Battalions Compete | 5 Race Rounds | New Rowing Crew Each Round

Battalion Spirit Teams On Shore | Excellent Aerial Views By Japan Navy Drone




As the man says, "The videos are innovative and powerful, unlike anything you've seen before, including footage taken from the air by a drone." Indeed and for all the hard rowing these Japan Naval Cadets do the music is pleasant and calm as we get the open water and the big sky to enjoy from out comfy seats.

The excellent video has two parts actually, the first part playing for only two and a half minutes. The body of the video that is presented after that initially includes some repetition of the first part. By 5 total minutes the actual 5 Round Race gets underway. So the first part with its hard sounding music is a warmup to the main video that runs for some 20 more minutes of the hard driving race competition.

Each of the four battalions colors are prominently displayed on each cutter boat and with each battalion Spirit Team ashore:
1 Battalion Red
2 BN Blue
3 BN Green
4 BN Orange

Each Self Defense Force cadet brigade has four battalions, Ground, Maritime, Air. All JDSF cadet brigades are at one facility, the National Defense Academy which is at the Yokosuka Japan-US Naval Base, Tokyo Bay.

 

[gman]

In the front row Gen. Brown of ROTC L becomes chairman JCS, succeeding Gen. Milley of ROTC R. The second row are the service secretaries. 3rd row are current Joint Chiefs, with Gen. Smith second from left. Back row has the command sergeant major/NCO of each service.

Five of the total eight current members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are ROTC commissioned to include Chairman Brown (bottom left front) and the Vice Chairman Adm. Grady (far right in white). Then out going Gen. Milley bottom right was commissioned from (Princeton) ROTC. Milley's predecessor as chairman Marine Gen. Dunford is ROTC.

Cadets Japan Ground Self-Defense Force | Officer Candidate School​

69th Anniversary Parade & Tug of War Competition | "Simple Robust Upright"




Martial Music by the Japan Air SDF Band of Liberty:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Tripolar
Battalion March JSDF

The review ceremony and the traditional tug-of-war was held on the 65th anniversary of the Ground Self-Defense Force Officer Candidate School in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. So this is not the Ground SDF prep academy I'm used to presenting which is next to the JSDF Military Academy at the Yokosuka US-Japan Naval Base in Tokyo Bay. These cadets put one year in at OCS to become 2LTs and take it from there. Many go on to further education and advancement. They certainly have the spirit and commitment to it as we see in the tug of war contest. The School commander and staff lead on the field as the review is taken by the commanding general of the Southwest Self Defense Force District. Since Covid there's been a paucity of military cadet videos online even at the most prolific websites.

Corps of Cadets | Texas A&M Military College​

Veterans Day Review | 11-11-11- 23 | Review Ceremony​

In this video the Texas Aggie Military College Corps Of Cadets march in review on Veterans Day at Simpson Drill Field on November 11, 2023. The Corps noted that Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith is an alum of Texas A&M and we wish him well in his recovery from the Tuberville inflicted heart attack. Gen. Smith makes regular visits to the Corps of Cadets and its full time residential Senior ROTC officer training campus of the Army, Navy/Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force.

The first music is the US Army "General's March" salute to the Commandant General who is retired. (Each service has its General's or Admiral's March.) Then the national anthem. (I had to turn up my volume.)

The European derived and traditional Officers Center is all the cadet officers and unit guidon (colors) to salute the National Standard Colors and each Service Colors. Pass in Review. First up of course is the Cadet Colonel commanding the Army Cadet Brigade and his staff of cadet colonel all stars (3 Diamonds rank insignia, from the Brits). Cadet regiment commanders, battalion commanders, companies. The lone cadet ha marching behind each staff is the sergeant major. This video is of the Army cadet brigade only (there are two more videos ).

In WW II TX A&M had more commissioned officers in the war than the government service academies combined, and the most of any single college ROTC program nationally, 12,000. The current corps of cadets has 2700 members. Since ROTC was enacted in 1917 it has graduated more than 1,000,000 new officers, 2LT or Ensign. The Citadel has produced 293 general and flag officers as of June 30, 2017. VMI had produced 265 as of 2006. The University of Oregon has produced the highest number of 4-star general officers out of the civilian ROTC schools, with a total of 47.




Cadets of Texas A&M | Veterans Day 2023

Parson's Mounted Calvary | Texas Aggie Band ​

The Aggie band sure has a lot of members eh.

So, the age old ring knockers club ain’t what it used to be? I always wondered if that would ever happen.

 

[Tangmo]

So, the age old ring knockers club ain’t what it used to be? I always wondered if that would ever happen.

Yep, since Desert Storm when Colin Powell of ROTC was chairman of the JCS the ROTC commissioned officers have been getting their long overlooked due. Since Powell 7 of the past 10 chairman of JCS have been ROTC commissioned.

The chiefs of each service have had an increase in ROTC grads since Desert Storm. The word on the QT is that ROTC officers are more flexible than the academy grads are -- they think more outside the box. The two Space Force chiefs to date are ROTC for instance.

For another instance Annapolis grad Admiral Mike Mullen was a master of operations big and small, had numerous commands where he wowed everyone, then he became CJCS after completing his equally stellar tour as CNO. Yet Mullen himself has always said since retirement CJCS was his toughest job because it's about policy, not ops. It's about Washington politics rather than fleet operations.

The Old Guard though is still The Old Guard however. Since 3 IR was assigned to Ft. Myer and ceremonies after WW II and Germany every colonel commander is WP. As a company officer I was a rare ROTC guy during my ancient time there -- and it's only because the colonel thought the sun shone out my arse. Col. Conmy of WP of course had been commander of the ROTC at the U of Hawaii so he had what was then a unique perspective of ROTC many other WP grads didn't have or didn't like.

Yeah, the WP guys thought we ROTC guys were at a civilian college to party and get laid on full scholarship while they were at their WP monastery learning how to use water as a weapon of war. They had to live by the UCMJ and we did not. It's fact btw the academy cadets march around a hell of a lot more than any ROTC cadets march anywhere anytime. Precious ROTC training time is not wasted on marching practice. Only the six "senior" ROTC programs march as much, ie, the full time residential ones which are The Citadel, VMI, Virginia Tech. Norwich, TX A&M and North Georgia College that no one has ever heard of, seen or met anybody from.

So times are good for ROTC grads. Across the armed forces 40% of generals and admirals are ROTC. There's more of that coming. Yet there was nuthin for us when I was in. So I got TFO. **** 'em.

 

[gman]

Yep, since Desert Storm when Colin Powell of ROTC was chairman of the JCS the ROTC commissioned officers have been getting their long overlooked due. Since Powell 7 of the past 10 chairman of JCS have been ROTC commissioned.

The chiefs of each service have had an increase in ROTC grads since Desert Storm. The word on the QT is that ROTC officers are more flexible than the academy grads are -- they think more outside the box. The two Space Force chiefs to date are ROTC for instance.

For another instance Annapolis grad Admiral Mike Mullen was a master of operations big and small, had numerous commands where he wowed everyone, then he became CJCS after completing his equally stellar tour as CNO. Yet Mullen himself has always said since retirement CJCS was his toughest job because it's about policy, not ops. It's about Washington politics rather than fleet operations.

The Old Guard though is still The Old Guard however. Since 3 IR was assigned to Ft. Myer and ceremonies after WW II and Germany every colonel commander is WP. As a company officer I was a rare ROTC guy during my ancient time there -- and it's only because the colonel thought the sun shone out my arse. Col. Conmy of WP of course had been commander of the ROTC at the U of Hawaii so he had what was then a unique perspective of ROTC many other WP grads didn't have or didn't like.

Yeah, the WP guys thought we ROTC guys were at a civilian college to party and get laid on full scholarship while they were at their WP monastery learning how to use water as a weapon of war. They had to live by the UCMJ and we did not. It's fact btw the academy cadets march around a hell of a lot more than any ROTC cadets march anywhere anytime. Precious ROTC training time is not wasted on marching practice. Only the six "senior" ROTC programs march as much, ie, the full time residential ones which are The Citadel, VMI, Virginia Tech. Norwich, TX A&M and North Georgia College that no one has ever heard of, seen or met anybody from.

So times are good for ROTC grads. Across the armed forces 40% of generals and admirals are ROTC. There's more of that coming. Yet there was nuthin for us when I was in. So I got TFO. **** 'em.

One of nephews is a Citadel grad. Served 6 yrs AD, armor then Rucker and became a rotor head. Went into Jersey guard and retired out a 2 star. When I was in VN, we had some dickhead WP’s, but most as I recall were alright guys. During our reunion in California I ran into my old squadron XO, a WP’er, he was still a dickhead and his wife was one too.

 

[Tangmo]

One of nephews is a Citadel grad. Served 6 yrs AD, armor then Rucker and became a rotor head. Went into Jersey guard and retired out a 2 star. When I was in VN, we had some dickhead WP’s, but most as I recall were alright guys. During our reunion in California I ran into my old squadron XO, a WP’er, he was still a dickhead and his wife was one too.

That's pleasing to know about a nephew Citadel grad who eventually retired as a 2-star. I've posted here before the best young officer we had was a Citadel grad. He was head and shoulders above all the company officers and everyone up and down the ranks considered him the very best.

When I arrived in '66 1LT Sam Bird was still there. Sam was the officer in charge of the Kennedy joint service casket team for Pres. Kennedy's state funeral. The story of it goes that when Sam heard the casket weighed something like 400 pounds he ordered up a casket the MP's had to hit Gawler Funeral Home for, had it filled with big rocks and the night before had the joint service team carry it up and down the steps at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to get the feel of it and used to it. The OIC never touches the casket but that sucker was so heavy that Sam at the stars end of it grabbed it going up the Capitol steps to help out the team and of course avert a potential catastrophe. Up and down those Capitol steps was brutal on the team despite 'em being the gorillas that they were.

When I was there Sam got captain and Charlie Company while the whole of the regiment was envious they didn't get him. Sam had his own plan though and once he got captain he shipped his own arse to The Nam. On the last day of Sam's second tour his company begged him to lead 'em on an air assault even though the new c.o. was there. Sam agreed. During the assault his helo was hit and Sam lost his right eye and part of his face and skull. He spent years in a VA hospital and, promoted to major, finally returned home to Kansas where in 1983 Sam succumbed to his wounds.

Sam Bird the Citadel grad was one of America's finest and stands forever as a model to all members of the armed forces in the defense of our country. RIP Major Sam Bird who was a leader's leader. A guiding inspiration to his troops who looked up to him and to all of us who respect Sam and who promote his unblemished legacy. His star shines on.

 

[Tangmo]

Pass In Review

Cadets of US Army ROTC | Virginia Military Institute | Senior ROTC Program

Inauguration of Governor / Commander / Graduate / Brigade Chief Cadet | Class of '83




Talk about close order marching ha this is definitely it. The VIP platform is built out onto the roadway while VIP participants get to stand right in the roadway across from the platform. All the same however the VMI dress uniform definitely outclasses 'em all to include WP.

As I've noted VMI is one of six DoD Senior ROTC Programs which means it is residential and full time ROTC of whichever service(s). VMI is historically Army and includes many prominent grads to include Gen. George Marshal who effectively was chairman of the Joint Chiefs during WW II and before there were the JCS, and who was also SecState after WW II. The senior six programs identified in scrolling at this thread involve 4 years of total emersion and 5 consecutive years of mandatory active service on graduation and commissioning.

Personally I totally dislike the recent requirement of the Army to march in mass formation and that applies to the whole of the Army. The Army's longer march formation is another Army stinker from higher ups who haven't marched in years ha. Their lousy idea is unity of force, ie, units marching together as a whole. Well any E-3 or O-1 knows (!) the longer the formation the wilder it is to dress and cover and to maintain cadence, mechanics and rhythm, ie, stay in step. This vid and its (forced) close order marching is the only least damaging way to to it. And it's always the rear quarter or third of the formation who get the whiplash






Cadets of USN ROTC | Naval Service Training Command | Great Lakes Training Center




Music:
Toughest In The Business
Born For This
Here To Win

One thing the NSTC does is provide lots of information which means I don't have to hunt things down to fill in the many gaps left by guys who simply slap up a video to YouTube figuring everyone he knows knows too. So here goes

Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) began the New Student Indoctrination (NSI) for over 400 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen candidates from across the United States July 2, at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC).

Following a successful pilot program last year, the incoming college freshmen students are participating in a program designed to standardize basic militarization and provide uniform training not available at individual host universities. The training is being accomplished on the same base and in the same facilities that train every enlisted Sailor.

New Student Indoctrination provides basic training in five warfighting competencies – Fire Fighting, Damage Control, Seamanship, Watchstanding and Small Arms Handling and Marksmanship - to begin creating basically trained, smartly disciplined, tough and courageous future Navy and Marine Corps Officers.

The candidates are being led by Navy-option 1st class and Marine-option 2nd class midshipmen, instructors and staff from NROTC units across the country. The staff is overseeing and instructing the midshipmen candidates with assistance from the Recruit Division Commanders and instructors assigned to RTC as well as Marine Corps Drill Instructors.





Cadet Nabib is now an Army Infantry Specialist Sergeant 3rd Class assigned to train new regular force recruits in the Basic Military Training Course. In this full time active duty posting Spec. Sgt. 3 Nabib is called The Mentor.

The Mentor | Every Singaporean Son | The Epilogue​

I'd noted in scrolling that at the conclusion of SAF Basic Military Training the Army orders and sends its chosen graduates to either the officer training course or the specialist nco training course. It's not like you can volunteer or not -- you are sent. We saw in videos the then cadet Nabib had been assigned to the officers course. During training Nabib's trainers determined he is suited for the specialist nco position and this is where he is in this video, also called The Epilogue.

The guy's a natural as an nco -- just perfect already. "I am in a position to learn more and to know more, and to see more. I wouldn't change it for anything."

 

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Congratulations @Tangmo

Aren't these your first veteran likes?

I wonder how they would feel if they knew your posting history.

 

[Tangmo]

Army-Navy Game

Cadet Bands of USMA & USNA | Parade in Boston | Government Center

From the Massachusetts State House & Boston Common Park
To Faneuil Hall Revolutionary Meeting House At The River Charles

WP Marathon Team Ran The Game Ball the 208 Miles from WP to Foxborough




The two academy bands and their cheerleaders march from the state capitol building at the Boston Common Park through Government Center to historic Faneuil Hall on the Boston waterfront. The loose and active formation reaches Government Center at 4:00. In view at the left is the JFK Federal Building high rise where I once worked and the Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neil Federal Building where I also once worked. Seen straight on in the frame is Boston City Hall.

The long brick building at the right is the original meeting house of the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that became the meeting place of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts legislature. Outside this building is where the Boston Massacre occurred. Next week is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

The loose lively march proceeds along the back side of Boston City Hall to historic Faneuil Hall where the fires of Revolution were lit. During the one year before the Declaration of Independence Boston was under siege by the British Navy and the Army occupied the city to include being quartered in people's private homes.





Cadets of USMA | THE GAME Pep Rally | Nighttime At West Point

Bonfire, Fireworks, Spirit Band, Rablerousers | Dec. 6th

No Speeches | Just Punch Lines




This is all piss and vinegar as my father used to say about his 4 boys. It's short rousing bursts of well armed rally rousers but it's the Academy Command Sergeant Major who steals the show with his verbal bomb throwing ha. The football team arrives by the route step through a rousing cordon of cadets to the front at the stage.







Cadets of US Naval Service Training Command | Officer Candidate School

Great Lakes Training Center Illinois | Midshipmen Complete Phase I Training

Take The Officer Oath of the US Armed Forces





A short and tight video.

 

[Tangmo]

For The Record:

Army - 17
Navy - 11

Army's Max DiDomenico goes over Navy wide stumbler receiver Cody Howard to intercept a pass during the first quarter of an NCAA football game at Gillette Stadium Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Foxborough, Mass. (Winslow Townson/AP)


The Annapolis Naval Cadet football team fell 6" short of the goal line and tying the game with seconds in a single digit remaining -- then to win on the point after. When the cloud of dust cleared and the pile of players of both teams was sorted out, the ball turned over to the West Point Army Cadet team with 3 seconds remaining. Game Over. Army cadets held the goal line against the all out Naval cadet massed scrum.

At the half the Navy starting QB was replaced by his backup after not completing any passes during the first two quarters. Army won last years game and the Black Knights have won 6 of the past 8 games.

The USS Constitution sets sail during the Boston Harborfest on July 4th. In October the USN Venerable Man O' War celebrated its 226th year in commissioned service, the world record.


For its 124th edition, America’s Game made its first trip to Massachusetts, where George Washington first took command of the Continental Army and the USS Constitution – the world’s oldest commissioned naval warship -- is docked.

Organizers squeezed in a weekend of activities at historic sites in the area, including a pep rally, pull-up competition and debate at Faneuil Hall; a ceremony to mark the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and a tug-of-war at the Old North Bridge at Lexington and Concord, the location of “the shot heard ’round the world.”

Nearly 100 buses carried students from West Point and Annapolis to Foxborough, where they took the field in their dress grays and blues in a pregame “march-on of the Brigade of Midshipmen and Corps of Cadets.” Ultramarathon relay teams ran game balls from their campuses, 208mi from West Point NY and 460mi from Annapolis MD; parachute teams dropped onto the 50 yard-line. New recruits of each service were sworn in during a third-quarter timeout.

Navy Midshipmen stand on the field before an NCAA football game between the Navy Midshipmen and the Army Black Knights at Gillette Stadium Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Foxborough, Mass. Next to the Navy Goat is a foreign exchange cadet from the German Navy. (Winslow Townson/AP)

 

[Tangmo]

Cadets of Taiwan Army Force | NCO Academy | Annual Field Day Competition

Tauyuan City Park | Taiwan Strait | Academy Legion of NCO Grads Active & Retired



Music:
We Are Different
By Da Zhuang

For about ten years this Taiwan Army Force Corps of cadets of the NCO Academy have conducted all day Field competitions to include in an Olympic fashion. The two ranks we see facing one another ignite one another's Olympic style torches then jog from opposite directions that meet at the main flame. One team is led by the Academy Command Sergeant Major while the other is led by the Academy 1st Sergeant. There are the three flags, the national standard colors, the Army standard and the Academy standard. The obviously older guy on stage all the time is the Academy President Major-General active duty.

The brigade chief cadet leads in the Cadet Pledge with his book that is the Chief Cadet Book that only he has and passes on to his successor, each with comments in a separate volume. We see girls as cadets at the NCO Academy for the first time despite the massive political firepower the Army has always arrayed against this. It took Pres. Tsai almost 7 years and a lot of scars to do this but now it's done.

Ukrainian Officer Cadets Visit NATO​

NATO




Ukraine Army Force officer cadets discuss their mission, the plight of Ukraine and praise their experiences training and visiting battle sites with NATO officers and ncos. One says it's been excellent at the platoon level and, indeed, all almost any Army wants from its new 2LT platoon leaders is they know their stuff about platoons, platoons, platoons.

Deceased Ukrainian Fighter's Son Becomes Cadet at US Marine Military Academy​

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Ukraine Son Whose Army Father Was KIA Against Russian Barbarians

Is Enrolled This Year at the Private USMC ROTC Certified Marine Military Academy Harlington TX as a Full Time Cadet

Tuition, Fees, Stipend Paid In Full by Support Organizations in USA




Mar 29, 2023
Vadym Horodnyi comes from a family of Ukrainian soldiers. His father died defending their hometown, Chernihiv, but Vadym remained determined to join the military. The 14-year-old ultimately got a chance to study in the United States and is now a cadet at the Marine Military Academy in Texas. Nina Vishneva has his story in this report narrated by Anna Rice.

 

[Tangmo]

Cadets of US Naval Service | Junior ROTC | Mara Vista High School | California

Graduation | USN Training Command Leadership Academy | July 2023 | San Diego



Music:
National Emblem March
Anchors Aweigh
Marine Corps Hymn
National Emblem March





"I made it."

Cadet Graduation Ceremony & Family Celebrations | Singapore Armed Forces​

Specialist Sergeant Training School | 23 Weeks | 17 Aug 23​

Focus on the New Specialist Sergeant Azil & Family in Attendance​

Right at the beginning of the video are the two young children of Spec. Sgt. 3d Class Azil and his mother as they await the arrival of Azil's better half driving from work. It's a brief look and it's great we see a lot more later of these delightful and happy kids when it comes time to pin daddy with his new stripes hard earned and deserved.

First though the company guides march onto the square to mark the position of each company in the formation. This is very helpful and is still done just about everywhere. The armed grads march into the square, all services new nco grads to include military intelligence, medical corps as well as the combat arms, engineers and so on. The Sea of White uniform is of course the Navy, red leg stripe the Army, silver-blue leg stripe the AF.

There's a musical honors salute on the arrival of the chief of general staff and the armed forces command sergeant major advisor. The grads swear the armed forces oath followed by the national anthem which are heavily edited for time as is the entire video except for the pass in review which comes next.

The new Specialist NCOs of all the services march back after unloading their rifles, singing in English of course Fighting For Our Country. Open ranks as families with stripes exit the seats to find their guy. We get a lot of the two kids here and the families. Things serious up again as all the new nco specialist leaders swear the NCO Creed, With My Life. The Muslim food is served to the families and I wish I were there again because during my time in the region I never had a Muslim meal that wasn't scrumptious.

Raiders State Competition Florida​

Hawk Battalion

Cadets of Army Junior ROTC | Seminole Ridge High School | Hawk Battalion | Florida

AJROTC Raider Brigade | State Competition For the Regionals then the Nationals




Army Cadet Command runs a national Raider Battalion unit that focuses entirely on the physical aspects of soldiering. While membership is open to all cadets of JROTC, it is voluntary and in reality the bulk of the cadets who join up and remain are those willing to train their arses off in physical tasks, to include of course those who enjoy the challenge.

This is the Hawk Battalion of Seminole Ridge HS that competed in the Florida State Raider Battalion competitions and did well but. Yet the fact remains that getting to the state competitions is no small feat. There are some loose cannons in this one I must say as I love 'em all.