Idiot Cadet

[dan]

Ok, my blood is boiling...

A young friend of mine recently joined the ACF where they are all very 'enthusiastic' and 'dedicated' (read; obsessive and bullying). Now, I was once in the school cadets, a particularly relaxed and enjoyable group which gave me an enormous advantage in getting to my current career, without ever getting thrashed; they are kids for God's sake!

Now as a young cadet, he has been visiting the website for London based cadets, and i've been browsing on it. To be honest, the only members seem to be straight out of Full Metal Jacket, always using each others rank, and filling their posts with 'motivational' (chad) phrases. One individual, a certain 'Cpl V' or Cpl Viera, no doubt a certain spotty 15 year old, has singled himself out as a complete control freak. Below are some of his choice quotes...D*ckhead...

"instead of discussing new games you people should be thinking of ways in which to improve the ACF and your own units.
Just a suggestion!!"
Here's a suggestion...get a life nobber!

"the ACF is no place to have a laugh, if a laugh is what you are you looking for than maybe you should join a youth club, where they have pool tables and playstations.
it's comments like this that keep 13 group from progressing.
p.s. Cpl Cole games are for kids, we are CADETS."
No, you sir are a prat. The military is probably the best place for a laugh, anywhere. What a miser.

"Cpl, seeing as though you have entered a converstion which you were not part of, my answer to you is you have no idea what goes on in the mind of cadet p*well, and having a cadet correct you in not something to be proud of. and if you don't mind i will deal with this situation in my own way.
How can he talk to a mate this way??

p.s. Cpl Vieira is not a machine, though some might believe the rumours to be true."
Coffee machine you grande asswipe.

"I don't understand how being adressesed by rank at 132 can be an issue.
If you have a rank and someone is not adressing you by it tell them and if they carry on punish them. you shold also feel free to use fellow NCOs to help you. NCO's must work together and help eachover by enforcing rules and regulations. While at the ACF you must forget who your friends are and behave as an NCO."How sad.

"don't apologise, that's another sign of weakness. be strong you're an NCO."
In the Marines, an outfit this little punk could never dream of joining, we never talk like this crap. Yes, you respect rank, but no-one spouts off garbage like this.

Of course, I can't say anything on the site because it is so strictly run (apparently one of the members was stopped from using the word 'retard' and told he was better off out of the cadets) and I want to protect my young mate from any kickback. However, if any of you lot feel a bit peeved, feel free to vent your feelings at http://www.londoncadets.net/forum/index.php. Personally i'd like to grab this kid and show him how a real soldier deals with stuff.

I'm sorry if I come across as, well, a little frustrated...but it was all I could do not to smash my fist through the screen and grab him. If anyone wants to refer him to this post (or even better, my local), please feel free!

[bootneck]

Dan, well said, i suppose he`ll turn out like a certain Senior NCO i used to know, he went everywhere with his right arm about three feet infront of him just to let everyone know he was a knobber, oops, Sgt.
I even knew Officers who wanted me to call them by their given name except when others were about, (out of the Troop etc)

[dannyd]

Having spent many years in the cadets I am sad to say that idiots like this Cpl V are all too common. Many people seem to join the cadets just because they see it as a chance to get into a position whereby they can bully and initimidate others (this applies to both cadets & adult staff). I find this extremely sad & would always make a point of 'dealing' with someone who I felt was acting like this.

Yes the cadets are a military organisation and as such should have standards of discipline, fitness etc... but this guy is just a sad knobber.

What a prong!

[m-a-s-s-e-y]

I was talking to a mate of mine who joined the infantry a couple of months ago. He'd been in the cadets previous to joining up for a number of years and the week before leaving he took his uniform back to the cadet place and to say good-bye to his mates. But when he got there some of the thicker lads told him to "fcuk off back to civi street" and gave him a load of crap about being a civi even though the next week he was off to join the real army!
I think most of the cadets join it for whats it for, make mates, have a laugh and get a feel for the military its just a few that seem to beleive there the next thing down from the SAS when in reality it is just gloryfied scouts.

[dan]

Ah, it drives me mad! These punks think they have a position of authority whereby they can abuse younger members and glorify their own bloated egos. Any reg will tell you this is not the way to behave. They are not acting out a military organisation, but a little game in which they are the leaders and can bully in an atmosphere that seems to condone it.

Come down Lympstone you truncheon waving scrote and then i'll show you how authority works! in the mean time, please do feel free to voice these issues to our young Cpl V (whose probably bulling his boots with a boner in his pants). I imagine he'll disappear to Sandhurst one day and spend the rest of his career getting anally probed by his superiors.

[dan]

...As I said previously, one of the lads has got in trouble on the forum for jokingly using the word 'retards'. Read my mate, Cpl V's response...

"I think what you did was out of order and if it were up to me i would have cancelled your membership.
you have hurt a lot of people by what you wrote and next time you should think before you write.
May i remind you that you are a cadet in the ACF, a military youth organisation, start acting more like it
Cpl **** i would have thought that by now you would have been able to realise why the formality is nescessary, guess i was wrong. you are young and one day when you join the marines you too will understand.

Cdt ****** i do not know you and i am not your friend, just in case you thought otherwise. you are obviously new to the ACF and for that i am willing to let this matter go, just remember to think before you write.

p.s. you are very lucky you adressed me by my rank on your last post because the manner you spoke/wrote was unacceptable"

Ok...so i'm a Marine but quite clearly, Cpl V is a real prong. I guess I must have missed that lecture in training where we learn how to be Grade A plonkers. I'm so lucky to have young boys like this telling me how my Corps is run. Cheeky little s**t.

[Benw]

People like that are the reason I left the cadets when I was about 15.

I remember one day when we were on the way down to Cornwall for the usual annual camp - all the NCO's hijacked the back seats. It was quite hot on the coach so the ceiling vents towards the front and back of the bus were open. I thought it time to get my own back and couldn't resist nailing them all at once, so I took my lamb sandwich (aah mothers cooking) and lobbed out of the front vent. The sandwich immediately exploded out of the back vent covering all said NCO's with mustard, sliced lamb and bits of bread. What a laugh. Man did I have a hard time during those two weeks. Still - it was worth it to see the looks on their faces.

[Dave.Mil]

Some of the cadet instructors are real Ar""O**S . Once at Catterick we had some PO's out on exercise and we came across some cadets who were lost wearing short sleeves,it was a claggy Yorkshire summers day with mist and light rain and a bit chilly, needless to say the young lads were none to impressed some were close to hypothermia. We gathered them up and took them to the "green hut" which is a hut on the edge of the driver training area. Made them a hot brew and started getting a bit of life into them. One of the cadets adult(i use the term loosely) officers turned up and tried to give me a hard time for ruining his exercise. I was not having this (I was a full cpl at the time) so I got my boss (a Capt) to come out. He listened to my side of the story then gave this twonk one of the best bollickings I've heard in a long time pointing out I was a JSMEL and well versed in taking people out in the wilds. Our boss then arranged transport to get the cadets back to their camp and as far as I'm aware followed it up with a letter to the area commander. Not long after that I had to look after a bunch of cadets from Manchester and the staff were excellent (the cadets were little fatherless kids though). I don't know who control's the staff but obviously it's a bit of a lottery which type you get depending where you live.

Bugger me I think that's my longest post, the memory still gets my back up.

[Aldo]

Your making me glad I never joined 'em. I did know a lad when I was but a wee nipper (now a big nipper) who eventually joined the cadets. He was one of the most mental, anti-social people you could meet and I mean he had "problems". I past him in the street a few times when he was on his way to the cadet centre, he always had a look on his face as though everyone around him was a piece of brown stuff that he couln't get rid of. I always wondered how someone like that could have been accepted into the cadets, and I certainly never thought that they attracted these kinds of people. Surely the majority aren't like that.

Oh and why do I need to register just to view the forum?

[ashley]

"RULES & NOTICES - READ B4 REGISTERING!!"

*AHEM*

I've always got the impression cadets were a tidy bunch. I was never in them myself, although there was a few in school with me who were.

[dan]

They'll be mighty confused when their membership doubles over night! Of course not all cadet groups are like this; mine was very informal. The way we treated younger cadets was in a bit of a 'jokey-older-brother' fashion, we had a laugh, but they remembered who was in charge. I'm pretty sure they loved taking the p*ss when I was taking weapon handling lessons!

People who use the cadets as a sadistic ego trip should be maimed. They're definitely not what the military needs. 'Nuff said on the matter.

[RobT]

I was in the ATC (air cadets) for a few years and i can say i had a good time there. It was a good crack, the CPL's were our mates from school so there was no trouble. That cpl V will get whats comming to him, a new cadet alot bigger and harder than him will join. I've seen what happens!

[bird]

I was in filton cadet unit in bristol untill about a year ago (MC1). The lads I was with were a great bunch of lads and a right hard bunch but there dicapline was spot on, yeh we pissed around but it was a laugh and we knew when to stop The good thing was there was no aragonce and everyone was treated the same. Apart from the occasional wannab SAS twat.

If this Cpl V came to my old unit and would of left undoubtably after a week.

If this nobber does ever apply for the RM i dont reckon he will last 5 mins with the other recruits let alone the instructers!

Cheers, Bird