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Kayla from Navy Cadets discusses her interest in joining the Navy and becoming a submariner. She is inspired by the lifestyle and opportunities she sees in the Navy. She believes Navy Cadets is a great way to prepare for a career in the forces and make valuable connections. Kayla enjoys the various classes offered by Navy Cadets, particularly drum corps and hands-at-arms. She also mentions the benefits of free healthcare and the chance to travel. She compares Navy Cadets to Scouts, noting that Scouts offers more diverse experiences and social opportunities. Overall, she recommends Navy Cadets for those interested in a military career and Scouts for those looking to broaden their horizons. Welcome to the Landers interview podcast and I'm here with Kayla from Navy Cadets. Would you like to introduce yourself? I just got introduced. Oh, okay. So, tell me, you're in Navy Cadets, right? What got you hooked to go to Navy Cadets? Well, the people that are there and then the fact that it will benefit me in the future. Okay, so who would you think would be interested in joining Navy Cadets? Anyone that's either looking to get into the forces, trying to meet people that would be good to help them become a better person. The connections there are great. Anyone that's trying to build up their future and have a good foundation. Do you plan on using this for your career and role in the future? Yeah, most definitely. Okay, so what part of the defence forces are you planning on studying for or joining? Probably, I'll most likely be a submariner. I don't know what for yet though. That sounds really cool. So, what about Navy Cadets inspires you to become a submariner? Within Open Day, when I went to see, not the one just gone, but last year, so 2023. The Open Day that I went to there, I was talking to people in the Navy and there was a submariner that I was talking to. And the life that they had within it seemed really cool. I've heard about when you visited a submarine, did that inspire you to become a submariner or did that push you away? I wasn't able to go onto it because I wasn't able to sign up to it quick enough. But hearing about other people go on it and hearing what they saw made me want to do it even more. Yeah, I can kind of tell you, you kind of wish you were there, didn't you? Yeah. So, do you know why you want to be a submariner? Yeah, because of the lifestyle that I saw. You know, you're not underwater for that long. When you get out, what the Navy does, last time I checked, is they give you money to basically go out, stay in a place, buy your own food and everything, while you're still getting paid. So, in return, you're practically just saving money. Then you go back underneath the ship and it's just really simple and easy. So, I've heard that submariners do actually travel across like around the world and stuff, but from where I am. Do you have any Germany places in mind that you probably want to go to? Cyprus, but in the end, eventually, I will live there just because it's beautiful. Yeah, no places in particular, but I like Europe. Europe's a nice place. That sounds really good. So, why do you think other cadets should join a Navy cadet? Because, for one, it can benefit your future, as in, well, for one, it could persuade you to get into the Navy, which the benefits that go from there are incredible. I couldn't list all of them, but basically, a really good lifestyle, you know, you get free healthcare with the Navy, you know, just pretty much everything. You don't need to pay for your dental care, you know, everything's covered, right? As well as a lot of the people within Navy cadets are striving to do well, and a lot of them will have connections to other people that are striving to do well. So, that can, in return, benefit you, because it's sort of like what you're around is what you become. So, there's that. Yeah, overall, it's just a really good experience, and a lot of people do think that, you know, like cadets is like a boot camp, you know, drop down and give me 20, you know. But, in reality, it's a pretty chill environment, but yeah, it's good. So, you personally, what do you think keeps you in cadets? What really makes you want to come back every week just to do drill and stuff like that? Well, I serve for the connections, the people, and that it'll benefit me in future. Okay. So, what do you think Navy cadets, what does Navy cadets teach you about this time you go there? Well, at the moment, they introduce anything where you can do either like, you know, first aid, you can do drum call, which is just on the drums. You can do like full food tech things. There's hands-at-arms, I think it was called, which is basically guards. Overall, though, you can do, you know, like, just like your basic knots, parts of a sailboat. You can learn how to sail, yeah, because it is Navy, that's really what it is. It can also teach you what life is like in the Navy, and yeah. And it also teaches you drill and discipline to an extent, I guess. Yeah, that sounds really fascinating. So, out of those classes you've met before, like first aid, skilled arms, what do you think your favourite would be? Like, what do you think you would really want to get into? At the moment, I'm in drum corps, for the drums. But hands-at-arms, which I'm pretty sure it's called, I can't remember, is definitely, like, my favourite at the moment. Just because it's, you know, you look really fancy and flashy when you're doing it, and then you get to hold like a little, like, rifle. It's not real, unfortunately, you want more. But, like, you know, it's pretty flashy, and then you march, the way that you march is really, like, neat and, you know, like, fine. Oh yeah, that sounds, that sounds like a really fun thing to do. Do you, um, any interest in actually, like, marksmanship or anything like that? In what? Yeah, any interest in marksmanship, like, shooting and stuff, or just plainly holding them? Um, no, as much as guards-at-arms, it's just... I don't think you do shoot in that, actually. I know you can do shooting with the Navy cadets if you're 16, I believe it was. Yeah. Yeah. Do you, um, are you planning on doing that when you age up? Yeah, I mean, like, I've shot guns before, like, with cadets, and then I've shot real ones with scouts. But, um, with cadets, I don't know how to explain it, but it's like a Bluetooth one. It's like, um, and you shoot it at this, like, little dot, and it shows you how close you were to it. So it can be, like, 0.001 close to the dot, and all the rest of it. Wow, that sounds, that sounds like, sounds definitely something I want to get into. So, you... You are. I almost said that. So, you mentioned that you were in scouts before. What do you reckon, what's the big difference between scouts and Navy cadets? Um, well, with scouts, you do more, and it's, um, yeah. So, basically, with scouts, there's a wider range of people that are in it, and it gets you out to do more. Navy cadets is more centred around one area of things. Um, however, the people in scouts, depending on the area that you're in, can be a bit more, like, rat-baggy, and not the best. However, scouts does still offer great experiences. So, you've gone over those points before, you've talked about Navy cadets and scouts. Which one do you think would be the best for what kind of people? Well, it depends on what you're trying to do. So, um, if you are dead-set on getting into, like, the forces, Navy, etc., then cadets would be good, just because of, like, the connections. And then, you already have the first five weeks of your training, like, down-packed, because that is purely just drills. Um, however, if you, you know, like, want to expand your social life, get more out of your comfort zone, and just, you know, like, travel a bit more, and, you know, experience more things of what you can do in this world, then scouts would be better. Right, that's, yeah, that's a very interesting perspective. So, uh, that's all we have time for today. Well, thank you for listening. Yeah, see ya. you