Re: national cadet course
I took the training too. I was asked to be the leader of my groupthe ones who have to shout out the commands and sstuff but I didn’t want to do all that shouting like an idiot so I declined and recommended another friend of mine 
They still didn;t let go of me and I had to be one of those two people, the ones who walk behind the shouting person and when some hotshot person comes for the inspection they walk behind him. Dammit I don’t remember any of the terms. And whe nit was time to fire the rifles I froze. I was too damn afraid to fire the damn thing and he sound from everyone elses guns almost made me cry 
I was out of the country when our cert.s came in and never got around to collecting it. Not that I learnt much anyway except marching!