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The Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps (RMVCC) is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the Royal Marines. The Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps are a part of the Royal Marines Cadets family who are an official branch of the Royal Marines alongside the; - Royal Marines Commandos - Royal Marines Band Service - Royal Marines Association The idea being the 'Corps' family is made up of the: The Future - Cadets / The Present - RM Commandos and RM band service / The Past - The RMA ==History== The RMVCC was first formed on 14 February 1901 at the now closed Royal Marines barracks in Eastney, Portsmouth. It was formed, so the story goes, to "gainfully occupy the spare time of sons of senior 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 RMVCC was initially formed as the Royal Marines Artillery Cadet Corps 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). Girl Ambulance Corps units existed alongside RMVBC units for some time, and these were merged with the RMVBC after the Second World War, with the current title being adopted by all units in the 1970s. However, RMVCC Portsmouth only accepted girls from the mid-1990s. The RMVCC is one of the UK's oldest youth organisations tracing its direct heritage back to 1901. It was 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 also formed at the Royal Marines barracks in Chatham, Deal, Kent, Gosport, Hampshire and Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon. Later on, another unit was formed at Lympstone, Devon (Commando Training Centre Royal Marines). RMVCC Deal closed when the Royal Marines School of Music left the town and moved to HMNB Portsmouth; RMVCC Chatham transferred to the Sea Cadet Corps when Pay & Records Royal Marines left Chatham in the 1960s, and RMVCC Gosport 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 sadly closed again in 2006. The current Motto of the RMVCC is 'Be Worthy'. As of the 6 July 2014, following a tri-partite RMC parade at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH 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 can be title as Her Majesty's Royal Marines Cadets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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