Post by KG on Jan 17, 2010 22:01:01 GMT
SEA CADETS
`Ready Aye Ready`
This Island place will always be a natural seamen’s home,
While protecting or transporting, cargoes o`er the foam,
The finest seamen in the world with training in their youth,
Must still uphold our heritage by skill and basic truth.
A good start is the Sea Cadets if twelve years old and keen,
To open up one’s options while working in a team,
Boys and girls are taught, in most things maritime,
Practical and theory from instructors in their prime.
What better for a youngster than marching to the band,
Or climbing up the rigging reaching high by hand,
Restricted not by race or creed, but challenges anew,
Nor politics or militants to steer another’s view.
Based upon traditions of naval origin,
Well founded are the virtues of discipline within,
They have the tall ship Royalist to hone their latent skills,
But now require a new Brig to learn from thrills and spills.
The need is quite imperative for a training craft,
For continuing instruction on a vessel fore to aft,
With training and encouragement the will is in their clutch,
Perhaps the birth of leadership and the Nelson touch.
We should aid our Sea Cadets and help them all to grow,
Feed them great potential - extend the status quo,
For Britain’s breed of mariners are the very best,
Stemming from our youngsters expressing interest.
Joe Earl
(Ex Reading Sea Cadet Corps - Jervis Bay 1953- 56)
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