The
cadre ( or ) is the complement of
commissioned officers and
non-commissioned officers of a
military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit. The cadre may be the permanent skeleton establishment of a unit, around which the full unit can be built if needed, or in countries which have
conscription, the permanent staff of a
regiment who train the conscripts assigned to it. The term comes from the
French expression
en cadre, with the same meaning.