Each Year (excluding during the pandemic) around 150 Cadets gather in Wales to tackle one of the most intense experiences available to cadets. In 2019 18 teams of CCF and ACF cadets entered Exercise Cadet Cambrian Patrol 2019 and their participation ensured that most of the British Army’s Brigades were represented. The event replicates a similar event in the Regular Army and is seen as the hardest and most demanding of all Cadet events – Only the Top Contingents in the country earn a place to complete

“Exercise Cadet Cambrian Patrol tested a wide range of areas across the whole of the cadet syllabus,” said Major Mark Teesdale RE, Officer Commanding of the Cadet Training Team with 160th Infantry Brigade & Headquarters Wales in 2018. “The standard this year was higher than ever, and just making it to Cambrian means the cadets are the best in their Brigades. It’s one…