The Prince of Wales reminisced about his time cleaning boots as a cadet on a visit to a school, joking "I think I still bear the scars".
While at the school, the Prince also announced a new Welsh youth initiative called Young Dragons, under which all of the uniformed youth organisations in Wales are joining forces. He said the initiative was born out of a conversation he had with North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom on the Royal Train a year ago.
"I must say it's taken me 25 years or more to get to this point. It always seemed to me an awful lot of wasted potential and human assets were also being wasted here. So many young people respond to this opportunity, particularly at that stage in life where so often it seems you need a bit of challenge and adventure," the Prince said.
"Long ago when I was young I joined the Coastguard, can you believe it? When I was at school in Scotland. In those days we would practice the entire drill for rescuing people on the cliffs and man a watch tower on the cliffs up on the Moray Firth hoping an aircraft carrier would run aground so we could go to a rescue."
