Young Marines
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The Young Marines is a youth program in the United States and Japan open to all youth between the ages of 8 and 18 or high school graduation (whichever is later, not to exceed 20 years of age).[1] The Young Marines program is the leader in youth Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) education and has received many accolades for its DDR programs (drug prevention and resistance).[2] It has been awarded the United States Department Of Defense's Fulcrum Shield Award 12 times, with the last one awarded in 2022. The program has partnered up with National Family Partnership to help keep kids off drugs. The Young Marines take part in Red Ribbon Week and hold activities and events that take place during that week in October to push drug prevention and resistance efforts nationally. A documentary released in 2019, but filmed much earlier (somewhere between 2008 and 2010) The Recruits, has brought the Young Marines under renewed scrutiny[3]
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