back in the day we could have 6 or 7 cadets on every week, the more experienced ones were mixed in right away but the green cadets spent the first half hour of the shift doing basic training just so they could see what was expected from each station and see what the combat orders were, they were then split up and mixed in with the crews, if that meant we had enough we would open a 5th or 6th ship and xo’s etc would go and command these ships, the training department has its own mini training sand box mission used for training cadets etc in recent time cadets have trickled in rather than turned up on mass so there has not been the opportunity to run a basic training exercise, its just an other thing that has evolved over time within the fleet