COMBINED CADET FORCE
The broad function of the Combined Cadet Force is to provide a disciplined organisation within a school so that boys and girls may gain powers of leadership by means of training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self reliance, resourcefulness, endurance and perseverance, as well as a sense of service to the local community.
Combined Cadet Forces (CCFs) operate largely but not exclusively in independent schools. They are funded jointly by the MOD and the Schools. CCFs invariably have two or more contingents drawn from the across the Services – Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army, and Royal Air Force. CCFs, which can only be found in schools, may include cadet sections of all three Services. Here in the Highlands we have CCF contingents in seven locations: