Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps

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Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps
Chivenor
Motto(s)	Be Worthy
Commanders
Commander VCC	Lt Col (VCC) C Spratt
Adjutant RMVCC	Capt (VCC) O Glover

UK Military Cadet Forces military component of the youth organisations in the United Kingdom
Components
Combined Cadet Force Community Cadet Forces Sea Cadet Corps Royal Marine Section Army Cadet Force Air Training Corps Volunteer Cadet Corps Royal Navy Section Royal Marines Sections Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets
British Overseas Territories
Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps Cayman Islands Cadet Corps
Former Components
Air Defence Cadet Corps Bermuda Cadet Corps National Association of Training Corps for Girls Girls' Nautical Training Corps
Personnel
Ranks
Allegiance
Charles III
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The Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps (RMVCC) is part of the Royal Navy's

The RMVCC exists alongside the

The RMVCC is the oldest of the Royal Marines Cadets organisations.

History

The RMVCC traces its history back to the formation of the Royal Marines Artillery Cadet Corps in the Mission Hall, Prince Albert Street, Eastney on 14 February 1901 by the Admiralty. The new Cadet Corps was based at the now closed Royal Marines

Non-Commissioned Officers

(SNCOs)" after an occasion when the colonel's office window was broken by a ball kicked by an SNCO's son playing outside. The RMACC was the first cadet corps in the Royal Navy (the Sea Cadet Corps not being recognised by the Admiralty until 1919).

The RMACC was initially formed with the motto 'Manners Maketh Man', and re-titled as the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps in the mid-20th century (sometimes also known as the RM Volunteer Boys Corps). Royal Marines Girl Cadet Corps (also known as the Royal Marines Volunteer Girls Corps) and the Girl Ambulance Corps units existed alongside RMVBC units for some time,

Second World War

, with the current title being adopted by all units in the 1970s. However, Portsmouth Division RMVCC only accepted girls from the mid-1990s. The RMVCC is also the first military cadet organisation to be titled 'Royal'; indeed, its cadets were 'Royal Marines Cadets' from the date of the organisation's formation (the Marine Cadets of the SCC and CCF have only recently been given this distinction).

Since 1901, units were formed at:

• Portsmouth Division RMVCC: originally at Eastney Barracks, then HMS Nelson but now at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth.
• Chatham Division RMVCC: Royal Marine Barracks, Chatham (now part of the Sea Cadet Corps).
• Deal Division RMVCC: Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, Kent.
• Gosport Division RMVCC: Forton Barracks, Gosport (now based at HMS Sultan).
• Plymouth Division RMVCC: RM Stonehouse in Plymouth.
• Lympstone Division RMVCC: Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, near Exeter in Devon.
• Arbroath Division RMVCC: RM Condor in Arbroath in Angus, Scotland.
• Chivenor Division RMVCC: RM Chivenor near Barnstaple in Devon (new in December 2020).
• Band of the RMVCC Plymouth: RM Stonehouse in Plymouth.
• Band of the RMVCC Gosport: HMS Sultan in Gosport, Hampshire.

Deal Division RMVCC closed when the

when Pay & Records Royal Marines left Chatham in the 1960s, and Gosport Division RMVCC was disbanded and then re-formed as a non-MOD cadet marching band in the 1970s following the traditions of the Royal Marines Light Infantry but closed again in 2006. However, Gosport Division RMVCC was stood up again in HMS Sultan in 2018.

Cadets from the RMVCC have appeared at Navy Days in Portsmouth and Plymouth, the Royal Tournament and in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes. As of the 6 July 2014, following a tri-partite RMC parade at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh (Captain General Royal Marines) and in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Marines, all marine cadets in the UK can be titled as Royal Marines Cadets.

The RMVCC were casualties in the

Cadet Ranks

Boys and girls enter as a Recruit, and having 'passed out' at the end of their basic training become a cadet. Cadets follow the VCC Training Syllabus and progress through 'phases', similar to how the Army Cadets achieve stars. Command Courses allow the cadets to progress up through the ranks:

Royal Marine Volunteer Cadet Corps v t e											No insignia	No insignia
		Cadet Warrant Officer First Class	Cadet Warrant Officer Second Class		Cadet Colour Sergeant	Cadet Sergeant	Cadet Corporal		Cadet Lance Corporal		Cadet	Recruit
		CDTWO1	CDTWO2		CDTCSGT	CDTSGT	CDTCPL		CDTLCPL		CDT	RCT

See also

• Volunteer Cadet Corps
• Community Cadet Forces

Other Marines Cadets

• Royal Marines Section Combined Cadet Force
• Royal Marines Cadets (Sea Cadet Corps)
• Young Marines

References