This is pretty awesome!
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Also saw that they had13 cadets do a parachute jump 
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All the more reason to have the 3 single service 1*s come under the Maj Gen. (Appreciate the SCCâs current structure doesnât really allow that).
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And then you have (had) the likes of Tony Keeling who are quite happy to see squadrons close, volunteers leave, and do nothing to make it easier to open or run a unit.
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And where I live, move out of the inner city whilst the ACF/SCC remain.
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https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1852297766262767973?t=RUW1psN7EkV3_TH5IBukPw&s=19
Not only great media content with a minister involved, the ACF are still running big camps.
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I came here to post just this⌠ya know, itâd be a PR coup and a half if we slung a Minister in a RAF plane.
Oh well.
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iâd be happy if we managed to slung a few Cadets in one more regularly myself!
#ageoldarguement
#wewantmoreflying
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Not sure if anyone has seen this from the Scouts:
Very much based around recruiting volunteers and setting up new groups.
They also have paid leaders in some areas, managing several groups in places where Scouts isnât active (inner cities mainly)
We could change the topic title to add & Scouts!
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I can think of a few iâd sling out of one
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With or without parachute?
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Theres an option?!
that is quite a story to have that photo recreated and see where those two cadets got toâŚwhat an inspiration! (and fluke that they both ended up at the same station given where they could have ended up)
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Funny storyâŚ
Back in the mists of time, I was a Battery Captain at 29 Cdo Regt on a Light Gun Bty. I persuaded my boss to invite my old Sqn to a live fire ex at SENTA - we had some junglie Sea Kings for insertion and shoot 'n skoot, a couple of FSTâs from 148, and all the normal gunline activities.
Sqn came along, stayed with us for a weekend, everyone had a great time, all the kids got a flight with the junglies, some got to play with the FOOâs, and everyone got a 105mm shoot in their 3822.
The WO at the Sqn was an amateur photographer and took some stunning pictures.
HQAC werenât interested. Didnât want the pictures, didnât want a write up for the rag - âtoo Armyâ was the reply.
I know I said funny storyâŚ
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That is a crying shame - but what an experience for those Cadets!
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Well done you, what an amazing experience for your cadets.
I was able to abuse my position many times, and I never had any problems from my hierarchy about it being air cadets, and not army cadets - but HQAC never wanted to know.
The most dramatic was a cadet from a Sqn I was an SI on using a GLD to bring down live Paveways from a pair of GR4âs.
HQAC werenât interested in that eitherâŚ
Did you also include that in the shooting log of the 3822? 
Regardless in the 20+ years I have been involved, I have found the ATC always seems to have this inbuilt snobbishness against other services & cadet forces - often unwarranted & unearned.
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