Description: We empower America's youth to become tomorrow's leaders through programs focused on community service, leadership development, and living a healthy lifestyle.
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Our children are the future—future world leaders, captains of industry, teachers, scientists, change makers. The Young Marines mission is to empower them, helping them maximize their potential to become the citizen-leaders that our nation needs. Here, they hone and uphold values such as discipline, self-confidence, the desire to live a healthy life, and the motivation to excel academically. Values that stand as the cornerstone of our success as one of the leading nations in the world.
Our goal is to empower future leaders—but perhaps even more importantly, to create conscientious, empathetic, and productive members of society. Ours is a mission of growth. Since our humble beginnings in 1959, we’ve expanded to more than 280 units with more than 9,600 members and 2,500 adult volunteers; we are spread over 46 states, the District of Columbia, Germany, and Japan; and have affiliates in a host of other countries. We help by initially focusing on character building and on fostering leadership
Our nationally recognized “Closing the Gate on Drugs” initiative educates our young members about the dangers of the most-common gateway drugs (tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, prescription drugs, and marijuana). It is taught by our senior Young Marines to convey how healthy, responsible living starts closer to home.