National Cadet Corps (Sri Lanka)

National Cadet Corps
Active 1881 - Present
Role Volunteer Youth Organisation
Headquarters HQ National Cadet Corps, Kalubowila, Colombo.
Motto(s) Nonquam non paratus (Latin)
සූදානම් නොවී නොසිටිනු (Sinhala)
Never be unprepared (English)
නඛදාචිද් අසං විහිතඃ (Pali)
Commanders
Director Maj Gen AKP Wickramasinghe USP

The National Cadet Corps (Sri Lanka) is the Sri Lankan military cadet corps and is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the Sri Lanka. Formally the Ceylon Cadet Corps It is open to high school students on voluntary basis and has a history of more than 126 years as of 2007. The officers are teachers who act as instructors. The Cadets are given basic military training in small arms and parades.The officers and cadets have no liability for active military service but many volunteer to join the armed forces.

Mission

The Mission of the National Cadet Corps is to train and inspire cadets using effective training curriculum, so that each cadet shall develop character, courage, sportsmanship, self-reliance, discipline, and civil mindedness, spirit of adventure, responsibility and comradeship to be a human resource of well-trained youth, capable of providing leadership in all aspects of life.

History

Battalions

National Cadet Corps has 34 Battalions located in


Training

All Cadets undergo practical and theoretical training at their platoon and company level in the areas such as Physical Fitness, Foot Drill, Weapon Training and Firing, Map Reading, Field Craft, First Aid, Regimental Duties, Confidence Building Course, Leadership Activities, Fire Fighting, etc. Annually assessment camps at battalion level are held at NCC Training Centre, Rantambe while Naval Cadet assessment camps are held in the Naval and Maritime Academy and Air Force Cadet assessment Camps of the SLAF Diyatalawa.[2] The standard issued service weapon of NCC is the British Lee–Enfield Mk III.

Trophies

Training Course

Ranks within the NCC

Officers

Cadets

Supplementary ranks

Past Directors

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ceylon Cadet Corps
  2. ↑ Hermann Loos Championship Trophy ends on Oct 20

External links

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