The town has a scout group, and a local Army Cadet Force hut at Chicksands on the Army Intelligence Corps base, which is part of Bedfordshire ACF, in A company.
The rank of cadet staff sergeant (CSSG or C/SSgt) is used by many cadet organisations around the world, including the Army Cadet Force and the Army Section of the Combined Cadet Force in the United Kingdom and the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the Civil Air Patrol in the United States.
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During his time at the open day he confuses a band of Army Cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator.
In 1964 the Royal Anglian Regiment renovated the camp and it has been in use by the Regular Army, Royal Marines, TA and the Army Cadet Force ever since.