Ode to the Corporals!

Ask anyone who has ever held the rank of Corporal in the TTCF, and they will say that being a Corporal is not the most exciting rank to hold, but it ranks among the most rewarding

105th Anniversary/Birthday of Captain Anthony Clemendor (1912 – 1998)

15th November marked the 105th Anniversary/Birthday of Captain Anthony Clemendor (1912 - 1998) Captain Clemendor was a truly legendary figure in the Trinidad and Tobago Cadet Force who held the position of Regimental Sergeant-Major/Permanent Staff Instructor in the Ministries of Home Affairs and National Security (Cadet Force Divsion) from 1957 to 1972. Prior to this …

TTCF Celebrates the #GirlCadet on International Day of the Girl Child

Today is the International Day of the Girl. We thought long and hard about designing something showing how the Cadet Force empowers girls, but then we realised that empowering girls is our daily mantra. We teach our girls to consider themselves no less than the boys. Every day, they prove to us that they are …

A Unique Love Affair

A parade means so much to me. It was at a parade that I knew that I wanted to be a cadet. Cadets were the youngest uniformed group that carried arms on parades. I was a starry-eyed lad, just nine years old, in the company of my mother watching an Independence Day parade at Chancery …