What are the exact words the Army say to the parents of a cadet who has perished in a war?

Question

When a cadet dies what are the EXACT words the military says to the parents?

how do I change it?

Answer 1

The Services used to send a telegram to NOK : "The United States Government regrets to inform you that your son/daughter_____was killed in______"

Answer 2

That's kinda demanted question but anyway's.............
I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform so young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert, he'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil? How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of "Taps" one night when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play and felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times that "Taps" had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children, of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands with interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn't free.

Answer 3

There are no EXACT words. And, just when did a cadet perish in a war. I served, but, I never served with a cadet!!!!

Answer 4

i might say air cadets yet i'm one so....... @ Mary, i think of it truly is purely a touch uninformed: you're saying 'you are able to fly a glider at last' properly actual you will very almost actual fly a glider as lengthy as you're sixteen+, additionally you will definetly fly in a Grob coach (as used via the RAF to coach pilots) presented you're sixteen+ and it truly is not at last as there are a super style of possibilities to flow flying with the air cadets. additionally while you're an air cadet it ability you are able to flow on all the air cadet camps and flow flying AND flow on military camps aswell, which you won't be able to do as a protection stress cadet. I actually have and it truly is been astonishing....the alternative is yours yet i might definetly flow with the ATC.

Answer 5

After returning from Viet Nam,I was selected for promotion to Warrant Officer,later to LDO(LIMITED DUTY OFFICER)(NOT LINE)I was a Casualty Assisstance Calls Officer.Please do not make light of the sacrifices our service
men,and their families,experience.I had two families-both of which had their sons missing in action.Try sitting with really
great people and explain why.Both of my families never
recieved the assurance that their sons were alive and neither
of their remains have ever been found.They are both on the Wall-to live forever-and no,I didn't say "I regret to etc.etc."
on my very first visit,with our Chaplain,all I remember is the
sobbing and the tears-theirs',as well as mine.

Answer 6

The last "Cadets" to die in combat would have been during the Civil War...

The Services used to send a telegram to NOK : "The United States Government regrets to inform you that your son/daughter_____was killed in______"

Now that Westen Union doesn't do telegrams... I wonder what they would do in a full-scale war ?

Answer 7

You are trying to incite some furor; but make sure that you know what you are talking about before you ask stupid questions. Cadet? I will spell it for you.. SOLDIER, and each and every situation is different. And why do you want to know?
You tried to start something but your smart enough to get to this site but not smart enough to come up with a coherent question. Try the edit part, redeem yourself.

Answer 8

I think they give them the last letter. I never thought about what they said. I wonder. I remember reading something about these soldiers who perishred. They had written there last letters. They were interesting to read. I had mixed reaction. I was sad, but at the end happy. Not happy. But proud. Sorry for that spew. Should be in Newsweek.

Answer 9

Cadets are not a officer yet, which mean they are not set to war until they get commissioned.

Answer 10

Upon the death of a soldier an officer will present a folded flag to the soldier's parents or fiance and say "Thank you for your service." This occurs at the funeral, usually.