How to Join!

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After recruit training, Young Marines meet every Thursday night from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. The location of our meetings varies based on what is on the schedule that day, so our members use the Stack Team App to know where to go. We also do numerous community service events, encampments, lock-ins, trips, and more. These can also be found via the app once you join.

The Young Marines program costs $200 to join initially. The breakdown of this cost can be seen below. Once a member, the cost is $50 annually. This covers all mandatory meetings and events. Some trips and events have a nominal fee for them. If cost is the only hurdle to joining, please reach out to our Finance Manager at a meeting to discuss payment options or scholarship opportunities.

While you can find some similarities between our program, scouts, and other youth groups it is hard to directly compare us to them. We are not tied to a particular school, religious group, or other entity as many of these are. We have a team of dedicated volunteers who work with our youth each week to teach leadership skills, teamwork, self discipline, and how to live a healthy and drug free lifestyle.  We want to see our kids be successful and self reliant adults regardless of the career path they choose to lead.

Absolutely not! Our goal is to take the traits that make the Marine Corps so successful and instill them in the local youth. This includes honor, courage, commitment, leadership, teamwork, and self discipline. We have Young Marines who are now successful in all walks of life.