History of our Unit

Recruit Platoons 2002 to Present The Lewis & Clark Young Marines were chartered on October 22, 2002 by YMNHQ. Our founding staff member and "the man with the dream and vision" was Mr. George Pobi. Without his perseverance and drive to succeed our unit would not be where it's currently at. The first recruit class had 27 recruits in it and they graduated December 7, 2002. The Commanding Officer (CO) was Mr. Pobi and the Executive Officer was Ms. Colleen Kruse. There were a staff of six (7) registered adult volunteers. Alden Skinner, Brian Hildebrant, Bruce Riggs, Colleen Kruse, Dave Sailer, , Steve Parks and Wayne Kurtz. In the first five years of the Lewis and Clark Young Marines there were approximately 230 young adults proceed through the program through twelve recruit classes. Recruit Class 2 & 3 graduated 54 Young Marines total, creating a two platoon series. The National Director Mr. Mike Kessler was so pleased with our gigantic recruit platoon that he came out and was our Guest Speaker for that graduation. He presented the National Director's Commemorative Challenge coins to our two Honor Grads that day. Recruit Class 1 - Platoon 120702 - Honor Grad David Sander Recruit Class 2 & 3 - Platoon 41203 Alpha & Platoon 41203 Bravo - Honor Grad Chris Boyette Alpha - Honor Grad Lawrence Cavallero Bravo - Series Honor Grad Chris Boyette Recruit Class 4 - Platoon 92003 - Honor Grad Matthew Wilson Recruit Class 5 - Platoon 41704 - Honor Grad Shane McClellan Recruit Class 6 - Platoon 30505 - Honor Grad Trevor Nystrom Recruit Class 7 - Platoon 73005 - Honor Grad Alec Maier Recruit Class 8 - Platoon 21806 - Honor Grad Grant Rodman Recruit Class 9 - Platoon 72906 - Honor Grad Greg Merkl Recruit Class 10 - Platoon 22407 - Honor Grad Lauren Graben Recruit Class 11 - Platoon 72807 - Honor Grad Jesse Ivie Recruit Class 12 - Platoon 120107 - Honor Grad Matthew Khoo Recruit Class 13 - Platoon 53108 - Honor Grad Shannon Barbour Recruit Class 14 - Platoon 111508 - Honor Grad Marshall McIvor Recruit Class 15 - Platoon 61309 - Honor Grad Nicolas Perez Recruit Class 16 - Platoon 51510 - Honor Grad Gregory Fink Recruit Class 17 - Platoon 43011 - Honor Grad Vy Lam Have you figured out how Lewis & Clark numbers their Recruit platoon numbers yet?! We use their date of graduation as their platoon number. Hence, Platoon 41203 graduated Apri 12, 2003. Pretty simple way of remembering your recruit platoon number!