Cadre (military)

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A cadre in the military is the core group of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers who train the rest of the unit. They are often the permanent framework around which a unit is built, and in countries with conscription, the cadre may be the permanent staff who train the conscripts.

The word comes from the French "en cadre."

In the United States, a cadre can mean a group or a member of a group of leaders, especially in units that run formal training schools. In U.S. Army usage, the word can be used in the singular or plural form.

At the United States Military Academy, the upper-class cadets who run Cadet Basic Training for new cadets are called the cadre.

In Britain, a cadre is a group of instructors or a unit that trains potential instructors or non-commissioned officers, and it usually includes the trainees as well (for example, the Mountain Leader Training Cadre of the Royal Marines).

In the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the direct Japanese term is kanbu, meaning commissioned officers. The JMSDF also uses the unofficial term jun-kanbu for associate cadre, referring to warrant officers, whose role is different from the other branches.

In Canadian police services, a cadre can refer to an individual officer and is used in records and dispatch systems in place of a badge number.