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March Birthdays
1 - Mr. Hildebrant
5 - PVT Hoover N, 11
5 - PVT Davidson, 9
6 - CPL Martin, 13
8 - CPL Czmowski, 14
13 - PFC Barrett, 12
23 - PVT Ruiz-Valentine, 9
Happy Birthday wishes to our Young Marine family members!! We wish you well for another year of joy and fun in your lives!
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Blood Drive - 3/13/10 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 02/14/2010 14:58 PM (Read: ) |
The Lewis & Clark Young Marines are hosting a "Donor Days" at the local Red Cross Donor Center in Clark County.
When: March 13, 2010 from 0730 to 1300 (last appt at 1245)
Where: Clark County Donor Site 5109 NE 82nd Ave. Vancouver 98662
Who: 16 years can donate with parental consent -- need to be a healthy person -- at least 110 lbs. -- aged 17+
Anyone who fits withins these requirements is welcome to donate - friends, family, and neighbors!! Please pass the word.
If you have given blood less than 56 days ago, you are not eligible to donate.
Questions? Please contact Lead Event Staff Miss Lewis at either 503-347-1671 or dolphins508{at}aol.com.
Sign up form for appts will be at the Sign In/Out table beginning 2/20/10. You must sign up to participate.
Recruit families also welcome!!
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Sleeves Up Beginning March 14th |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 08/30/2009 21:42 PM (Read: ) |
The CO/XO have set up protocol for when the YMs wear their cammie sleeves up or down.
Sleeves Up. Cammie blouse sleeves shall be worn up (unless otherwise directed by the Unit Commander) beginning on the first drill after the shift to Daylight Savings Time.
In 2010, the shift to Daylight Savings Time happens on the second Sunday in March, which is March 14. Therefore, the YMs will start wearing their sleeves up at any function or drill from March 14 and on.
Of course, the UC has the ability to modify this directive should weather or other variant circumstances dictate.
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Recruits still wear their sleeves down until graduation day.
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PFT Scheduled for 4/3/10 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 04/06/2009 00:12 AM (Read: ) |
The unit will run the Quarter 3 PFT (Physical Fitness Test) on April 3rd. A make-up PFT will be given on May 1st for those who missed it in April. If you missed the PFT on 4/3/10, you MUST be at the make-up on 5/1/10 to get your PFT logged for Quarter 3.
It is a requirement of National that each YM in our unit has a current PFT score for each six-month period in order to be eligible for S.P.A.C.E.S. They define each six-month period as October-March and April-September.
It is a requirement of our unit that each YM has to have a score logged both first and third quarter or the YM does not participate in any activity that's held away from the Elks Lodge. That can be a day trip, a morning or afternoon trip, or one of our exciting encampments:
Operation Running Water (the river rafting trip) in July
Operation Belleau Wood in July
multi-unit encampment at Rilea in August
summer unit encampment in August
Recruits run their PFT during their recruit cycle. The above rules/regulations apply to them only after they graduate recruit cycle.
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LCYM Picture Day - 4/3/10 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 01/28/2009 17:03 PM (Read: ) |
Lewis & Clark has teamed up with Northwest Sports Photography to offer group as well as individual pictures of our Young Marines.
The photos will be taken on Saturday, April 3, 2010 during our drill times. This is the same day as the Spring PFT; therefore, drill should be well attended, so that we have maximum number of Young Marines for the group photo.
Please make sure your Young Marine is on time for drill that day, as picture taking will begin promptly at 0830 with the group photos taken first, followed by individual pictures. We expect to be wrapped up with photos by 1000, just in time for PFT. Also, please remind your Young Marine to have their uniform in top condition for that day so that they will look awesome!!
Picture packets will be available at drill on 3/6/10. Please fill out the packet and send with payment via your Young Marine on Saturday, April 3, 2010. Fundraising Accounts cannot be used for picture payment.
This will be an annual photography session with next year’s date tentatively scheduled for April 30, 2011.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Communications Coordinator, Ms. Wood, at 503-997-7766 or squeaky.racer{at}comcast.net
RECRUITS will have a group shot ONLY taken - no individual pictures.
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Drill on 5/15/10 MANDATORY |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 03/30/2009 16:01 PM (Read: ) |
Our drill scheduled for 5/15/10 is our recruit graduation day and will be held at a site to be determined.
Drill will be held like normal from 0745 to 1630.
This drill is mandatory attendance. We need all hands on deck for this highly important drill. Attendance can only be excused ahead of time by the Unit Commander Mr. Rinell. He can be reached at 503-328-9136.
We have 58 recruits in PLT 51510. We need to have all our YMs on hand to welcome them to the unit as Young Marines!
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Operation Belleau Wood 7/22/10 to 7/25/10 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 02/10/2010 18:02 PM (Read: 17) |
Plan on meeting at the Elks on Thursday, 7/22 no earlier than 1800. Please make sure your YM eats dinner prior to arriving at the Elks on Thursday. We will only be providing a snack once we set up our bivouac area when we arrive at the acreage.
We'll be back to the Elks on Sunday, 7/25 {at} 1600.
Travel uniform on Thursday will be Deltas.
Cost will be $25 per YM.
Click on "Read More" for the Gear List
CELL PHONES ARE NOT AUTHORIZED. DO NOT BRING THEM.
MP3s, IPODs, and CD PLAYERS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED. DO NOT BRING THEM.
POCKET KNIVES and/or KNIVES ARE NOT AUTHORIZED UNLESS YOU ARE AN NCO/SNCO. DO NOT BRING THEM.
BE ADVISED: In order to attend this overnighter, you must be current on all your mandatory fundraising, you must have a PFT score entered in the database for Quarter 1 and Quarter 3, and you must have turned in a year-end report card. No exceptions. LCYMDir_12
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Still Unnamed UNIT SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 8/14/10 - 8/21/10 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 02/10/2010 17:45 PM (Read: ) |
Get these dates on your calendar!
The unit will still be doing a summer encampment in lieu of Operation National Heritage which has been pushed back to summer 2011.
Location still to be determined!!
Stay tuned!!
BE ADVISED: In order to attend this overnighter, you must be current on all your mandatory fundraising, you must have a PFT score entered in the database for Quarter 1 and Quarter 3, and you must have turned in a year-end report card. No exceptions. LCYMDir_12
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Operation National Heritage Optional Fundraisers |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 10/16/2009 16:32 PM (Read: ) |
If your YM plans on attending Operation National Heritage in August 2010, they will be required to participate in three (3) out of the five (5) optional fundraisers being offered.
We feel it extremely important that ALL YMs wishing to attend this summer encampment share in the responsibility of raising the needed funds to successfully go. It just doesn't seem fair that 10 YMs raise the funds for 60 YMs to go to Washington D.C. One of the Young Marine core values is teamwork!
1 - Flag Afghan Raffle - $25 worth of raffle tickets
2 - Wreath sales - 10 wreaths or sponsorships
3 - See's Candies - 2 boxes above the 4 boxes required for operating expenses
4 - Valentine's casino bus - 1 ticket
5 - Cinco de Mayo casino bus - 1 ticket
As a unit, we'll be able to raise the needed funds to make Operation National Heritage a reality!!!
NOTE 11/18/09: Shuffling has been done by our Fundraising Chairs Mr. & Mrs. Merkl due to the unit only getting two (2) dates for PIR Winter Wonderland. That fundraiser has been removed from the above list (wasn't feasible) and a second casino bus was added in it's place. They have also added another box to make the See's Candies option two boxes sold. Their reasoning behind that was that the boxes only have 24 candy bars in each box, not the 50 we originally anticipated.
NOTE 1/23/10: The Unit Commander has announced that he has shifted Operation National Heritage to summer 2011 due "to the economic climate".
NOTE 2/6/10: The casino bus fundraisers have been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Even though ONH has been pushed to 2011, we will still maintain track of who participated in the afghan raffle, wreath sales, and extra See's sales and there will still be a requirement of fundraising to be met to participate in ONH. Stay tuned.
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"Loot for the Troops" - Ongoing Project |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 09/11/2009 14:57 PM (Read: 63) |
 Want to send your support to a Marine in harm's way, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it?
We were forwarded an email from a military family friend who thought this would be a great humanitarian service we could perform as a unit.
If you are interested in helping out as an individual or family in addition to our unit project, please go to www.anymarine.com. This site also links with other armed services, so if you are Navy, Army, etc., you can support any of those men/women also.
The service members we have chosen are:
Former Young Marine Zachary Rosling & Sgt Chad Lining (Rct Lining's Dad)
Rosling's National Guard unit is currently serving in Iraq and Sgt Lining's Marine unit is serving in Afghanistan. Let’s show our Young Marine spirit and provide them with some great stuff!!
This is a great opportunity to serve our men and women that are deployed and to give of ourselves without remuneration.
"Loot for the Troops" Chair - Mrs. LeeAnne Colson
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New Fundraiser Added to our Repertoire |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 09/08/2009 09:35 AM (Read: 132) |
 Our unit is now the proud owner of their own functional Gourmet Coffee Business. Move over Starbucks!This will provide our unit a very large ongoing lifetime passive residual income. As our business grows we will have less need for some of our other fundraising activities to support our annual operating costs. Yippee!Normally building a business requires a lot of hard work and money but that is not the case with JavaFit. We can build our JavaFit business very quickly if everyone helps. Did I hear you ask how? Please click "Read More" and I’ll tell you how. |
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2010 PARENT MEETINGS |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 09/10/2008 11:52 AM (Read: ) |
Parent Meetings continue to be every other month on the first drill of the month beginning at approximately 0815. This is a good time to come find out any new stuff, ask questions, get clarifications, share concerns (constructively), make suggestions, etc.
It's also nice for staff to have a dialogue with the parents to make sure we're all on the same page and we're moving forward for the benefit of the children in our unit. With a unit this size, staff sometimes feels disconnected with the parents and these meetings are a wonderful time for us to meet face to face and get to know one another.
Beginning in November, coffee and pastries will be provided! Yummy!
The 2010 meeting dates are as follows:
November 14
January 9
March 6
May 1
July 10
September 4
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Farmer's Market 2010 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 04/12/2009 23:08 PM (Read: 225) |
Farmer's Market 2010 runs from April to October on opposite Saturdays and Sundays as drills.
Our hours are from 0830 - 1500 on Saturdays and 0930 - 1500 on Sundays.
Stay tuned for further details as they are available.
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Mandatory Fundraising for Calendar Year 2010 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 03/06/2009 16:17 PM (Read: ) |
It has again been decided that the Lewis & Clark Young Marine unit will have just two (2) mandatory fundraisers scheduled for 2010.
The first will be See's Candies. This fundraiser will begin 12/12/09 and run through 4/17/10. The YMs will be required to sell 4 boxes of candy (24 candy bars per box) or do a "buy-out" of $90. [Recruits from PLT 51510 will also be participating in this fundraiser and they will have through 6/12/10 to sell their 4 boxes.]
The optional 2 boxes of See's Candies being sold to count as one of the optional ONH fundraisers for your YM can be sold through 6/12/10.
Each YM will receive 30% of the net profit made on the boxes of See's Candies that they specifically sold. This will be added to their respective Fundraiser Account (FA). There will be NOTHING added to the FA for a "buy-out" as we've reduced the amount due for a "buy-out" by that 30% already. (All a "buy-out" pays for is the cost of the product + the unit's 70%.)
The second will be the fireworks tent, which is scheduled for the last week of June through July 4, 2010. The YMs will be required to each work 4 hours in or at the tent (YMs younger than 16 are not allowed in the fireworks tent so will have duties outside the tent). There is no "buy-out" on the fireworks tent. The hours will need to be worked.
We've gone to mandatory fundraising because we found that the same few YMs were regularly participating in the unit fundraising yet when it came time for the overnighters and fun encampments we had a ton of YMs participating! Somehow, that didn't seem quite fair.
If your YM does not participate in either the fundraising or a "buy out" they are NOT eligible to participate in any of the fun summer encampments/overnighters nor are they eligible for SPACES consideration.
The Farmer's Market fundraiser that takes place from April through October is optional.
The See's Candies monies and the Farmer's Market monies raised will go to the operating fund.
The fireworks monies raised will go to the Operation National Heritage fund (Washington D.C. trip).
Updated 11/18/09 to reflect 2010 information.
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Adult Platoon Leaders |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 12/09/2008 13:11 PM (Read: ) |
Each platoon has a female and a male adult who supervises the platoons. Each platoon also has a YM PLT LDR and a YM PLT SGT who run the platoon.
Alpha Adult Platoon Leaders
Mrs. Anne Merkl abmerkl{at}aol.com 360-571-9110
Mr. Jim Czmowski racerat1966{at}gmail.com 360-980-9749
Bravo Adult Platoon Leaders
Mrs. Sue Mesick smesick{at}aol.com 360-573-1906
Mr. Gary Estes estesangler{at}verizon.net 503-347-4985
Charlie Adult Platoon Leaders
Miss Holly Lewis dolphins508{at}aol.com 503-347-1671
Mr. George Merkl abmerkl{at}msn.com 360-571-9110
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Winter Weather Wear Regulations |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 12/09/2008 12:45 PM (Read: ) |
Field jackets are authorized. They are the preferred "winter coat" for the children. Field jackets need patches sewn on them in the exact same format that they have on their cammie blouses (though we do let them wear the field jacket if they've got an order in for patches and haven't received the patches yet). But to be in regulation, the patches all have to be on the field jacket. [NO PATCHES on Goretex field jackets. It breaks the integrity of the jacket.]
Black, grey, or red sweatshirts are authorized for layering warmth UNDER BOTH the red National tee and cammie blouse. These are the ONLY colors authorized by the CO/XO.
Black gloves are authorized.
School coats are not authorized. If your YM doesn't own their own field jacket, there are field jackets for "check out" in our Supply closet. Check in with Ms. Wood if your YM needs to "check one out" for a drill or an event. She can be reached at supply{at}lcym.org or 503-997-7766.
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Drill Dates & Drill Location 2010 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 11/24/2008 15:46 PM (Read: ) |
Lewis & Clark drills every other Saturday from 0745-1630.
Drill Location - Vancouver Elks Lodge
11605 SE McGillivray Blvd.
Vancouver, WA 98683
Alternate Drill Location - Swan Island Navy-Marine Reserve Center
6735 N. Basin Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97217
What do I bring to every drill?
unit backpack, PT gear, guidebook, pen/paper, $5 for chow or sack lunch, water
Promotions are at morning formation on the first Saturday drill of each month.
Awards are presented almost every drill at closing formation. Parents you are always welcome to show up at final formation at 1600 to watch as your Young Marine receives any awards earned. |
Wednesdays NCOIC/SNCOIC Schedule FY2010/Quarter 2 & FY2010/Quarter 3 |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 09/10/2008 13:13 PM (Read: 478) |
Click "Read More" to see the Wednesday Study Night NCOIC/SNCOIC schedule for the 2nd and 3rd quarters of fiscal year 2010.
The scheduled NCOIC/SNCOIC is responsible for making sure things are running smoothly and properly during our Wednesday Night Study Sessions.
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Uniform Designations |
| Posted by: KristineL3 on 09/08/2008 20:45 PM (Read: ) |
Cammie Alphas = cammies with ribbons
Cammie Bravos = cammies without ribbons
Charlies = red National tee tucked in, khaki belt, jeans/shorts, tennis shoes
Deltas = unit tee tucked in, khaki belt, jeans/shorts, tennis shoes
PT = black shorts from home, unit PT tee shirt (if cold weather, unit sweats are also authorized), tennis shoes
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| More About Us |
About the Young Marines
 The Young Marines is the official youth program of the Marine Corps League. Founded in 1958 to promote the mental, moral and physical development of young Americans, the Young Marines offer a variety of activities specifically designed to develop greater self-esteem, discipline and self-confidence in its members.
Character building is one of the most important objectives of the Young Marine program, and all of its activities emphasize the importance of honesty, courage, respect, loyalty, dependability, and a sense of devotion to God, country, community and family.
In July of 1993, the United States Marine Corps officially designated the Young Marines program as “the focal organization for fulfilling its participation in the Department of Defense’s drug demand reduction activities.”
Young Marines make a pledge to maintain a drug free lifestyle and are encouraged to influence family, friends, and schoolmates to share this commitment.
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Updated on 10/28/2009 22:23 PM by squeakyracer
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