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Junior Leaders Corps Easter camp
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) Junior Leaders Corps will conduct its last series of military style field exercises for its members in Sha Tau Kok from April 13 to 16.
About 100 members of the Junior Corps will take part in the exercise and the main area of activity will be in Gallipoli Camp.
The programme includes map reading, radio communication, campcraft, fieldcraft, obstacle crossing, weapon training, shooting, night patrolling and orienteering.
The Junior Leaders Corps, under the aegis of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment, was founded in 1970. The youth programme provides an environment in which boys aged between 14 and 17 years selected from the community can develop their character, leadership skills and a sense of community awareness.
Over the years, Junior Corps has grown into a strength of 300 boys.
With the disbandment of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment this September, the J Corps will loose not only its financial support but also its permanent premises. So this Easter camp will be the last field exercise for the boys.
A Royal Hong Kong Regiment spokesman, however, revealed that as an evolutionary expansion to the old Junior Corps, a company named the Hong Kong Adventure Corps has already been formed recently.
"As it is quite clear that not only there is a demand for a successor for the J Corps but that a successor can continue the highly successful character and leadership development programme that has been benefiting the Hong Kong community for years", he said.
He pointed out that girls would also be recruited as to enjoy the same type of training as much as the boys.
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