Welcome to the Web Cadet Corps!!

I first came across the corps back in the late 1990's, when I was a Petty Officer at the local Sea Cadet Unit in Auckland, New Zealand. Back then it was one section with a dozen or so members and about the same in pages on the site.....now look at it!

Being the second ever appointed WCC Officer back in 1997, it is a great honour to be elected as Commandant. I have come and gone many times since then, and due to life on life's terms, I have not always been able to give the time I would have desired to. Finally that time has ended and here I am.

There will be some big changes happening around the place, and I believe these are going to help the WCC become a place of fun like it used to be. The restructure will allow us to re-group and head in a new, brighter direction for common good of the Corps.

We have many new and exciting things in the works, which I am really looking forward to seeing come to fruition and the great impact they will have around the place, and most importantly, on morale boost it will bring.

As I am down in little New Zealand (Southern Hemisphere), there is a big time difference, so you might not always catch me online. However, I am VERY ACTIVE and reply to emails, forums and PMs daily. I encourage you to approach me anytime on any matter, however there is a chain of command that needs to be followed preferably.

I look forward to working with you and getting to know you all. Let's make the rest of 2013 great!!

Regards

Lieutenant Commander(N) Cameron Mackenzie Commandant

Greetings! I am Field Marshal(A) Dave Beel. My job is to assist the Commandant in carrying out his duties, and as such my duties are varied and many depending on what needs to be done. If you ever need assistance from me please do not hesitate to ask, but I will ask you to ensure you have tried to use the Chain of Command first.

Everyone in the WCC has the potential for greatness. Whether or not you choose to unlock that potential is up to you.   Anyone can tell you to “do your best” or “reach for the stars”, but just being told to do something doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to do it.   Eventually it always comes down to the doer, not the teller.

Its easy to be sarcastic about striving for success... saying the effort will not be worth the reward is a lazy cop out.   An organisation like ours that requires near-instant gratification for all actions makes it very easy for someone to just take the easy way out, because many don’t realise that work, over a long period of time produces RESULTS.  No one ever got anywhere by sitting in their parents basement, playing video games, and burying themselves under bags of chips and mountain dew cans.  The most successful people in the world didn’t get that way over night.  They got there by putting their nose to the grindstone for years, until the effort paid off.

The phrase, “money doesn’t buy happiness” isn’t quite as accurate as it might have been, even 10 years ago.  It may be callous, but it’s true, happiness, to at least some degree, requires a little bit of cash... and the most surefire way to make sure you have that cash is good, old fashioned, hard work...

Sure there are a few people in the world who have achieved success, seemingly out of nowhere, but I guarantee that in 15 years, if you ask a 16 year old about “Snooki,” they will reply, “What the hell is a Snooki?”

Those are not the people we should be modeling ourselves after.  I encourage you to channel Bill Gates, not Pauly D.   Eleanor Roosevelt, not Paris Hilton.  

I hope with this address, I have motivated you to think about how you want to spend the rest of your life.  Don't waste it, you only have one.

Lieutenant Colonel(A) Doug Campbell Adjutant