page_title: Royal Marines Cadets
section_title: Organisation
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Marines Cadets / Organisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Sea Cadet Corps (Female Marine Cadet) at Hartlepool Maritime Festival
context_page_description: Royal Marines Cadets are part of the Sea Cadets, a United Kingdom uniformed youth organization. They take part in all the waterborne activities, as well as branching off into adventure training and military skills too. Royal Marines Cadets specialise in activities such as orienteering, fieldcraft, and weapon handling. There are also Royal Marines Cadets of the Volunteer Cadet Corps and Combined Cadet Force; this article deals only with the Royal Marines Cadets of the Sea Cadet Corps.
context_section_description: Royal Marines Cadets (SCC) are a sub-branch of the Sea Cadet Corps which created in 1955 on command of the Captain General Royal Marines and the Commandant General Royal Marines to be a detachment of the sea cadet corps, similar to the structure of the Royal Marines as part of the Royal Navy. The exception is Chatham Royal Marines Cadet Unit which was established in 1903, and remains an independent unit albeit now within the SCC. The first Marine Cadet detachment was opened in Bristol Adventure unit. Marine Cadets was formed for "...sturdy, adventurous boys..." Sea Cadet units may open a Royal Marines Cadets Detachment, who will use the same facilities, parade alongside Sea Cadets and fall under the command of the units CO.
  Royal Marines Cadet detachments wear the uniform of the Royal Marines with the exception of Commando qualification badges, and wear cadet specific insignia. They follow a much more land-based training programme, with emphasis on subjects such as Weapons Handling, Mapwork and Fieldcraft.
  The main differences between the Army Cadet Force and Royal Marines Cadets are:
  Uniform: The ACF is primarily only issued with MTP Uniform, whereas the RMC are issued with a number 1 uniform along with other uniforms.
  RMC cadets are also able to take part in normal SCC training, including all boating activities, providing in effect a much larger range of activities.
  Cadets or adult staff wear the Royal Marines blue beret, with red tombstone patch behind the cap badge. RMC Staff who have completed either Royal Marines Commando training or the All Arms Commando Course at CTCRM Lympstone, are entitled to wear the Commando Green Beret, subject to written permission from the SRMO. Few detachments are Male only due to staffing limitations, however, the majority also take female Royal Marines Cadets. SCC detachments of Royal Marines Cadets (RMSCC) are not to be confused with the three Divisions of Royal Marines Cadets that are part of the Volunteer Cadet Corps and pre-date the RMSCC.  The RMVCC is, however, part of the wider Royal Marines Cadet family alongside their SCC and CCF counterparts. As of 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 RM cadets from the CCF, SCC, RMVCC can be titled as Her Majesty's Royal Marines Cadets. Prior to this, the SCC used the title 'Marine cadets'.
caption: Female Royal Marine Cadet, 2008
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