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2017 has been a very successful year: Juniors winning Area Football and District Athletics, Sea Cadets winning District Boathandling and Royal Marine Cadets having a very succesful Field Assessment. We've had cadets away on training weekends, on board TS Royalist and on summer camp. We've had a cadet in the Area Band and we now have a Cadet Sergeant (the first in the detachment's history at Ruislip). We had a great Flag Week, a good Unit Review and we've replaced the doors and windows at HQ.

We celebrated our 75th anniversary (see article in the December edition of Navy News) and we have won the Area Local Unit History Competition. Roll on 2018 for even more success!

Ruislip Sea Cadets were represented at the London Area Carol Concert in the chapel of SS Peter and Paul in the Old Royal Navy College at Greenwich on Friday, 15 December. The Sea Cadets' London Area Band played instrumentals and cadets devised their own readings on the subjects of commitmet, honesty, integrity, loyalty and respect. Cadets, staff, committee members and supporters from Units in London Area attended along with representatives of several Livery Companies and many former staff.

The picture shows the chapel filling up prior to the service beginning.

Junior Cadets made Yule logs at their parade evening at TS Pelican on Monday, December 11.

At the end of the evening the logs were on display. BZs all round

Cpl Greg from the Royal Marine Cadet detachment made history for Ruislip Sea Cadets at the end of November by passing his Cadet Sergeant's Board, becoming the first ever Cadet Sergeant at Ruislip since the detachment was formed at TS Pelican in 1998. And on Friday, 8 December he was awarded the Gwen Scotney Trophy for Sports Cadet of the Year in the Unit by the chairman of HMS Ganges (West London Division) at a cermony  at the HQ of Uxbridge Royal Navy Association in Long Lane, Hillingdon

PC Rowe popped in to the Unit to meet the Junior Cadets in late November. PC Rowe is the local police officer for the area and told cadets about the work of the police in general and about what his role involves