Page 16 - Seaford College Winter Newsletter 2024

CCF
It has been another busy term for the Combined Cadet Force with events kicking off over the recent
summer holidays.
The Army Section attended the local Cadet Training
Team’s centrally run camp alongside 15 other
schools. Activities included blank firing exercises,
life firing on the range and a full day of adventure
training. The RAF section attended a centrally run
camp aimed specifically at their cadets and, to top it
all off, 20 cadets jumped at the opportunity to throw
themselves out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft
with the Army Parachute School.
The first major event was our Biennial Review,
conducted this year by Brigadier Derrick Stafford,
a Royal Marine helicopter pilot with a vast amount
of command and operational experience. He was
particularly impressed by quality of instruction that
the senior cadets displayed in delivering most of the
day’s activities. His final address to the contingent
was encouraging and complementary and paved
the way to our clean bill of health report.
The CCF then ‘hit the ground running’ at the
beginning of term with loads of challenging, varied
and demanding activities. For this term’s field day,
the RN Section conducted a fascinating visit to the
Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth; the Army section
learned how to conduct and then execute blank
firing section attacks and the RAF visited Tangmere
Air Museum in the morning and then conducted
navigation training and blew off some steam by
shooting each other with archery tag equipment in
the afternoon.
During the half-term break three voluntary activities
were laid on; our senior cadets were taught how
to deliver training in the Cadet Instructional
Course, many of our new cadets undertook their
Weapon Handling Training package and then an
adventurous few completed a 48-hour field exercise,
culminating in paintball close quarter training.
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