Adventure calls for Londonderry cadets

Local teenagers have enjoyed a week-long Cadet Camp packed with adventure, craic and camaraderie.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Jun 2019, 09:39 BST
Ready to tackle whatever Camp may throw at them are 14-year-old Cadets Aaron Doherty and Calum Aiken, members of the busy Drumahoe Detachment ACF.Ready to tackle whatever Camp may throw at them are 14-year-old Cadets Aaron Doherty and Calum Aiken, members of the busy Drumahoe Detachment ACF.
Ready to tackle whatever Camp may throw at them are 14-year-old Cadets Aaron Doherty and Calum Aiken, members of the busy Drumahoe Detachment ACF.

Energetic Cadets from detachments in Caw, Drumahoe, Lisneal and Newbuildings joined others from across the region to tackle an activity programme packed with sport, sociability and outdoor pursuits.

Colonel Adrian Donaldson, MBE VR DL, Commandant of the 1st (NI) Battalion Army Cadet Force said, “The relaxed fun of Cadet Camp provides a welcome break from some of the pressures which face our young people today.

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“Our Cadets have had a marvellous week at our super Cadet Training Centre at Magilligan, smashing every challenge we could throw at them and really getting into the mind- and body-stretching activity programme.