Reminiscing...

[The Blue Tory]

What were the highlights of your cadet career?

[Llenlleawc]

Going to Canada on the 2002 Exchange (to NCSM Quebec and visiting Quebec and Montreal) and meeting the Queen as Lord Lieutenant's Cadet when she came to Buckinghamshire as part of her Jubilee tour of the UK.

[Medic_Marleau]

Getting the scholarship, and receiving the top senior two years in a row.

[HLanay]

Being the Coxswain of my corps for the 75th Annual as a CPO1 (The first male in about 10 years) while our corps was around 130 cadets the largest in Ontario....I think Canada at the time (Sea Cadet Corps) With Admiral Morse as our Reviewing Officer

It was a great annual.........and a good end for me and my Cadet Career

[grass_roots]

Recieving my gunners chain

Participating in the 2000 Canadian Cadet Tatto

My final Anual Review & recieving the LSM

Meeting amazing people from all over Canada, and the world for that matter

Having the pleasure of working with so many amazing kids during my years as an NCO at the home corps and at summer training

bla, there's just to much, what a ride that was

[tucker_david13]

There weren't very many highlights of my cadet career. I mean, I guess there were just some really nasty people who really hated me. OAT weekends, trip to Boston, trip to Alma PQ, and the friends I've made. And oh, don't forget the enemies.

[The Blue Tory]

Lets see... I remember way back in May 2000, my second annual, that was the greatest drill team I was ever on, it was also my first year on the team. That was an allstar team everyone who was or would become someone big was on that team. The 4 RSMs since that year were on it, all of the CSMs and coy 2ics except for Smith and Elliott were on it. That was the best routine we ever did, it was simple, yet amazing. We did a silent routine with perfect timings and all that stuff to the tune of Mission Impossible. We only had 8 weeks to do it.

2824 has yet managed to put together a similar quality silent or normal drill routine since.

[AMothfromWpg]

Camps (especially Cold Lake and SL), Staff x2,
Golden Falcon- numerous years (NW ONT and MB) sports competition like event may long weekend
Sqn Trip to Victoria,
sports: 1st time I ever went downhill skiing, 1st time I ever went curling
Lord Strathcona Medal and the Cadet Scholarship
and finally, being WO1 of 6 (Jim Whitecross) Sqn

[sailor_baby]

Pretty much anything that happened at camps, bus rides to competitions and parades, having the opportunity to teach others what I've learned, receiving a scholarship, and meeting a lot of new friends......both online and within corps/camps.

[gunnerstoker]

Recieving the Lord Strathcona Medal, being the coxswain of my corps, achieving the rank of CPO1, my 5 years at camp, but most of all going on exchange to Sweden last summer.

[K Piper]

By far doing Nijmegen. Nothing will ever compare in my lifetime. I hope to do it again as a civi.

[Band_Goddess]

meeting Kyle. ;)

New Zealand 2000 exchange. It was amazing.

[K Piper]

meeting Kyle. ;)

New Zealand 2000 exchange. It was amazing.


awwwww..... so kind. Nov 8th, 1999?

[SLt T. Clausen]

Without a doubt, the best time of my career was receiving the award for top military band in British Columbia as the drum major of that band. I've never been prouder.

Some smaller achievements, being chosen as drum major for grad parade at summer, being a staff cadet. Being a WOII.

[The Blue Tory]

Best feeling, was marching off after completing the Sunset Ceremony, and seeing Paul with a satisfied look on his face

[sgt4life]

My entire last year of cadets. I'm not even going to get into why it was so wonderful, it just was. I loved it so much!

[Bright Eyes]

My best memory was going on the Atlantic Region Honour Band tour to Newfoundland. :)

[canoe instructor]

going to Japan in 2000 on exchange, being the cox'n of my corps,
recieving the LME, achieving the rank of CPO1, going to summer training every year.....i think by far......and my last annual when i aged out and passed the coxswain's cutless to my brother.....priceless

Cheers,
Meg Harris CI
ORCA Flatwater Instructor
ORCA Canoe Tripper
HMCS Ontario Athletics Staff 2004
HMCS Ontario Athletics Staff 2003

[Lt(N) AM Chan]

Not exactly a during my career as a cadet, but during my CIC career...seeing my TG 1s grow up to be the CPO1s and CPO2s of Quadra....

[The Blue Tory]

Not exactly a during my career as a cadet, but during my CIC career...seeing my TG 1s grow up to be the CPO1s and CPO2s of Quadra....

Same to a lesser extent... seeing the recruits from when I was a MCpl, growing and becoming NCOs as I retired

[lord_rupert]

Taking part in the Menin Gate Parade at Ypres, Belgium. Part of a battle fields tour. There is nothing that will compare to that moment as they play the Last Post. The Unit paraded under the gate and you can see the names written there. You see them and know that many of them were as young as you or younger - I was 17 at the time. Brings the reality of warfare home.

ROO

[Lance]

The highlight of my cadet "career" was completing AIC. Not too big of a deal compared to exchanges, meeting the queen, battle marches at Ypres, etc. But I loved it.

[The Blue Tory]

The highlight of my cadet "career" was completing AIC. Not too big of a deal compared to exchanges, meeting the queen, battle marches at Ypres, etc. But I loved it.

Yeah... way to outshine us and make our memories seem meagre brits... and aussies... {!}

[angelpilot]

Mine was the first time I flew alone outside of the circuit (basically taking off, landing, taking off, landing) Flying is a wonderful experience and being alone, flying by yourself is pure excitment.

Others were my first band camp, band comp, seeing my cadets succeed in what they want to do. Then just remembering all the fun times at camps, the 99 people on a grey hound bus, sudden rainstorm that soaked everyone to the skin. the freezing rain where we skated more than marched. the friendships.

[strats]

Marching off my grad parade and having the entire MTC (P&D included) break into an improve jam of Louie louie and then getting a flyby by .... some big impressive plane, i'm not sure what it was i was too caught up in the moment.

going to BC for an exchange and witnessing the true colours of my SQN.

promanading with hartley and creating new drill movement (the best was the staggering drunken promanad, to the left, jig. and saluting the janitor as he zambonied the floors...)

All of summer Y2K. alpha strike force, what an amazing group of people we had.


there were lots of good times, lots of bad times, but i can't remember the bad times anymore....

[hartley_2.0]

FLYING FLYING FLYING!!!!!!!

then of course home sqn stuff: instruction, messing round with my CO's head ie
: why arn't the cadets at mess yet Hartley (GF one year)
ma'mm they arn't ready cause there's a line for food, you see if i understood the quantem theory and i could bend the space time continuem at will i would, but unfortunatly the results for this are not useful yet and we're decades behind schedule, that and we'd have to produce the grand unified theory so we could transport cadets using this technology and untill we do unfortunatly we'll have to wait the 3 minutes for the next sqn to eat

also:



going to BC for an exchange and witnessing the true colours of my SQN.

promanading with hartley and creating new drill movement (the best was the staggering drunken promanade, to the left, jig. and saluting the janitor as he zambonied the floors...)



and of course the leadership and inspireing cadets to do stuff, (im, sure in a few years we'll have some pilots at 9)

[Jiggy]

All my years at the Q, especially Senior Band 2000 and Ops Staff, Ceremony of the Flags, Tattoo 2000, winning Most outstanding cadet, taking our drill team to provinvials for the first time in like 100 years ( JK) our trip to Newfoundland.....

[Insane Power Pilot]

The entire time at flying scholarship was undisputedly my favorite cadet "moment." Second place honors go out to gliding scholarship and a close third is international exchange to Turkey. Being promoted to WO1 ranks a very distant fourth. :p

[Primer]

Working at a cadet Training Center for the past 10 years. Starting as a Platoon Commander in a Basic Coy(94),Training Young youth and seeing them come back the next year for Cadet Leader. That is when you know you did your JOB WELL. :D
Seeing a Basic cadet now serving as my Asst Trg O as a LT. :rolleyes:

Well i must be getting older :eek:

Ruck up and Soldier on::

[woharrity]

Shortly after joining cadets at age 12 i managed to get my green star (first level), after that the time, training, and awards just flew by. Just like all the friends. Some of the qualifications I got over the years are:

Green Star
Red Star
Silver Star
Gold Star
NSCE
Basic Army Cadet
Army Cadet Leader
Army Cadet Leader Instructor _ Rifle Coach
Outward Bound Wales (England)
First Aid
Gold Physical Fitness
Drum Major
Level 3 Kyake Instructor
Rifle Coach
DOE (BR)

it seems like a lot but it happen'd in no time. I have definatly got around to many places with Army Cadets too, such as (I live near Saint John, NB), Halifax 6x, Cape Breton 1x, St.John's 1x, Dorval 2x, Neapan 2x, Ottawa 1x...and many more places.