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Cadet CSgt Macaulay with the Mayoress of Wirral
The last few months have been relatively quiet for the CCF – but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy anyway! Aside from our exciting and varied weekly training programme, we’ve been busy preparing our shooting team for the regional and national target rifle competitions.
that make up our shooting team will spend five days competing against both cadet and civilian rifle teams from schools across the UK – and some Commonwealth teams as well!
But it’s not all just shooting: in January, eight cadets trained and qualified for their Cadet Radio User qualification. Jamall Bell, Callum Andrews, Otto Dawes, Ben Appleby and four of our girls from Upton Hall School
Birkenhead School ccF
What’s Been Happening: Birkenhead School CCF
We’ve spent a good few cold mornings on Sealand Ranges in North Wales, setting up targets, obliterating
them with hails of
accurately placed
shots from some really
talented marksmen (and
women!) before the
drudgery of cleaning the
rifles! But the hard work
will come to fruition in
the coming months as
we enter the County
of Lancaster Rifle Association’s regional competition at Altcar Ranges in Formby, where many of our young shooters will
be competing in their first formal shooting competition.
It’s all fingers and toes crossed for some silverware before we head off down to the National Shooting Centre Bisley to take part in the Schools’ Meeting, where the cadets
undertook a course in radio communications, examining the theory of radio, voice procedure, security, tactical radio use, using military radio sets and of course, the practical fun behind it all! Under the instruction of our Signals Training Officer, Major John
Langan, the eight cadets became the first to qualify for this award in a number of years.
Royal Navy cadets also got a treat in March as they headed over to the docks in Liverpool to visit HMS Liverpool, before it was decommissioned. The party of cadets were given a VIP guided tour of the ship, had the opportunity to get hands on with some of the Royal Navy’s most interesting
In the field
But the hard work will come to fruition in the coming months...
In it to win it
All Seeing Eye
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