The Antigua and Barbuda Cadet Corps (ABCC) is a school-based cadet

Cadet

A cadet is a trainee to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. The term comes from the term "cadet" for younger sons of a noble family.- Military context :...

 program for secondary school students in Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

. The institution is divided into two main units: Sea Cadets and Infantry cadets. Sea cadets operate under the Antigua Barbuda Defense Force's coast guard

Coast guard

A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with...

s, and the Infantry cadets operate under the military force. The Corps is the only existing military organization for students on the island. The ABCC is one of several cadet organizations in the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

region.

Ranks

Recruit	Sergeant	Corporal
New Students	Students who are in the core for more than 10 years	Students who are in the core for 5 years