Sea Cadets
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Sea Cadets are generally members of a Sea Cadet Corps, a formal cadet organisation of young people with an interest in their national navy. The organization may be sponsored by the Navy or Naval supporter's organisation, such as a Navy League in the UK, or similar organisation. The various organisations are listed in alphabetical order of their nation.
Since 1958 the Naval Sea Cadet Corps has been committed to providing American youth with a drug and alcohol free environment to foster their leadership abilities, broaden their horizons through hands-on training and guide them to becoming mature young adults.
Sea Cadet organizations exist in most of the maritime nations of the world. Recognizing the value of these organizations in educating youth in maritime matters, the Department of the Navy requested the Navy League of the United States to establish a similar program for American youth. The Navy League agreed to do so and formally established the Naval Sea Cadet Corps (NSCC) and Navy League Cadet Corps (NLCC) in 1958. Recognizing the importance and benefits of the NSCC, Congress on September 10, 1962 federally incorporated the Naval Sea Cadet Corps under Public Law 87-655 (36 USC 1541).
Today, the NSCC has formed partnerships with organizations such as the Foundation for Teaching Economics and the Flying Midshipman Association to offer cadets broader opportunities in areas of leadership and aviation. The NSCC also took an active part in the creation of the International Sea Cadet Association (ISCA). The ISCA is an association of Sea Cadet Corps' from around the world, whose main objective is to facilitate exchanges of cadets between member countries.
"A Sea Cadet Corps or corresponding organization is a voluntary, non-political and non-militant youth organization, with membership unrestricted by race, sex or philosophical or religious convictions, which offers practical and theoretical training in nautical and maritime subjects within the context based on naval traditions."[1]
Sea Scouts are part of the Scout Movement, and an entirely different style of organisation. They should not be confused with cadets as they have different aims and objectives from a cadet organisation.
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[edit] National and Territorial Sea Cadet Corps
- Australia:
- Australian Navy Cadets[2] formed from the Australian Naval Reserve Cadet Corps
- Navy League Sea Cadet Corps[2]
- Belgium: Royal Belgian Sea Cadet Corps
- Bermuda: Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps
- Canada:
- Germany:
- National cadets of Germany
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Sea Cadet Corps
- India: Sea Cadet Corps (India)
- Japan: Junior Sea Friends' Federation of Japan
- Korea: Sea Explorers of Korea
- Netherlands:
- New Zealand:
- New Zealand Sea Cadet Corps
- Sea Cadet Association of New Zealand, the supporters group for the NZSCC
- Russia: Young Mariners League of Russia
- Singapore: Singapore National Cadet Corps (Sea)
- South Africa: Sea Cadet Corps (South Africa)
- Sweden:
- United Kingdom: Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom) (the first such named organisation in the world)
- United States: United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps
- Zimbabwe: Sea Cadet Corps (Zimbabwe)
[edit] See also
- International Sea Cadet Association
- Sea Scout, not a Scout Cadet organization, but sufficiently similar to be relevant
