"I found the Royal Marine Cadets and I thought it was just better." For 15-year-old Luis, who has been a cadet for four years, it gives them an edge. "It's something to brag about with other units.

Cadet Emily, 13, said: "The allied forces had been going through such stress for six years, imagine your kids were off in the war, you don't know if they are dead or alive, if they were coming home.