Jodie Standen participates in the Beating Retreat.
ARMY Cadet Sergeant Jodie Standen has recently returned from a once-in-a-lifetime trip where she took part in the Beating Retreat at Horseguards, London. The annual event is a spectacular evening of music and military precision drill including horses, cannon and fireworks.
The sixteen-year-old, who is also drum major for the pipes and drums of the first Battalion the Highlanders ACF, was one of 17 cadets representing the battalion in London.