Uniformed Instructor
Name: Laura Glass
Occupation: Apprentice
Sea Cadet Unit: Fleetwood
She may only be 23 years old, but Laura Glass already has 13 years of Sea Cadet experience and knows exactly what it feels like to be a young, impressionable recruit.
“I love working with the juniors,” she says. “I guess they can relate to me a little easier than some because of my age and the fact that it wasn’t long ago I was a cadet, too.”
Laura joined the local Fleetwood Unit
– TS Conqueror – with her brother in 1991. When he and her other Sea Cadet friends left at 18, she decided to stay. “Many of my friends moved away or joined the forces,” she says. “I did a modern apprenticeship locally so it seemed like a good idea to carry on with the Unit. There’s so much you can still do as an adult.”
Laura recently passed her PT instructors course, undertaken at HMS Temeraire, the Royal Naval PT School in Portsmouth. “It lasted a week and we were up at 6am every morning,” she says. “It felt just like being in the Navy.”