Columbus Young Marines

02/02/2022

Here is a video of our new Young Marine faculty down in Seymour, Indiana. We are so excited for the many opportunities this will, and has already opened up for us! We are the same great program with the same amazing staff and kids as we were in Columbus, we will just be now known as the Seymour Young Marines. If you like keeping up with our program, what events we will be at next, looking at all the fun activities we do, then please go like our Seymour Young Marine page!

We just want to give a huge shout out to Brett Ferry and Shawn Riley for donating the space and to all the parents, staff, and volunteers that have put so much time in to making this dream come true. We would also like to thank the mayor of Seymour, and the community with welcoming us with open arms. We are overwhelmed with the amount we have received so far and look forward to many more years to come!

Our signups for the 2022 spring session will begin this Saturday from 9:30 to noon at 220 S Chestnut St, Seymour, IN, 47274 (our new facility!!) we have a more detailed post on our Seymour page if you need more information or the other dates head over there and you will see all of that!

12/18/2021

We have $1.00 meatsticks for sell and our History posters for $10.00 both make great stocking stuffers! Come by Seymour Decorating Center to buy some or message me!

Flavors include

Sweet BBQ
Sweet Fire
Hot Cajun
Sunrise
Original Smoked Hickory
Sweet Maple Bacon
Pepperoni
Old # 9
Bold Teriyaki
Sweet Annie Brown
Chilli Cheese
Ghost Fire
County Delight
Hot BBQ

We have a lot of the posters other than Football we only have three!

https://www.countrymeats.com/our-flavors

12/14/2021

As our first official event as the “Seymour Young Marines” we helped the American Legion Post 24 lay Christmas wreaths on the veterans graves at garland brook cemetery in Columbus. Thank you to all our Young Marines, their parents and all the other volunteers that helped with such an amazing event.

12/14/2021

To finish out our session as the Columbus Young Marines we hosted our Recruit Graduation and Young Marine Award Ceremony. Recruit Graduate Hunter Wickizer was named Honor Recruit and also was given the Logan Thompson Gung-Ho award. The first time the same person received both awards!! Young Marines Corporal Larance was awarded the Young Marine of the year for our Unit (last one for Columbus!). And Young Marine Private Reynolds was recognized for all of his hard work with “Ethan’s table” during the pandemic, and was awarded the Commendation of Merit ribbon. Congratulations!!

12/14/2021

The Young Marines and Recruits took their Physical Fitness Test, where everyone passed!

For Veterans Day we helped open the doors for veterans at the Columbus Applebees, and we had some kids present a color guard for the Four Seasons Retirement Home Veterans Appreciation Event.

They also attended our weekend long encampment, Friday was just for our Young Marines. They played lots of football and bonded over s’mores around the campfire. Saturday morning they enjoyed a big breakfast together and after the recruits joined us. Saturday, after the recruits finished their tests, they played lots of team building games and activities such as pool noodle hockey, kickball, and mine field. Mine field is a game where they have to lead their blind folded team mate through the mine field (pool noodle obstacles) to try and obtain the object, with out touching a mine. Another activity they did was a pellet gun shooting course (this was heavily supervised and they had another brief gun saftey class). They also had a night map and compass course that they had to try and find the hidden objects by following the coordinates given, and only having a map, compass and one red light. Saturday evening Mr. Riley led a flag retirement ceremony where we respectfully retired old, worn out flags.

12/14/2021

This last session as the “Columbus Young Marines” was a great one! We had lots of physical training, drill time, team building games, and we were able to participate in the Hope Heritage Parade. We also had one of the local fire departments come by and show the kids all about the fire trucks. They explained everything on them, they demonstrated how they put on all their gear, and talked about the importance of fire saftey and having a family escape route incase of a house fire.

12/01/2021

As we end our Fall Session Saturday, we will be moving and changing our unit name for the Spring! Please like and follow our new page!

The Seymour Young Marines are bringing our 22 years of traditions from Columbus to Seymour!

Please like and share our new page!!!!

We are a youth program that helps teach today’s kids, values and how to stay off of drugs.
The main values of the Young Marines is to learn Leadership, Teamwork and Discipline. We teach our kids how to be great leaders, stay drug free with a healthy lifestyle and physical training. Some things that the kids learn about are, Drug Demand Reduction; this teaches them about the effects and side effects of drugs, and how to stay away from them. We also teach them basic "field skills" - how to build a shelter, how to have a proper campsite, how to navigate with only a compass and a map, and what plants, animals, and insects are good and which are bad. They also learn the basics of drill - how to stand in formation, how to march, and facing movements. We are heavily involved with Veteran appreciation programs, and we try to do as many community events as we can.
Some activities we do as a unit are weekend long campouts, and brown county hikes, where they are required to use the skills they learn. We also have marksmanship training, where they learn how to properly use and stay safe around fi****ms, then we take them to the range and they practice, heavily supervised. We also have swim qualifications where kids will be tested on the basics of swimming. And lots of games!!!
If you have any more questions contact our unit commander, Shawn Riley at (812) 344-7286
Sign-ups are at our new location, at Seymour Decorating Center 220 S Chestnut Street in Seymour Indiana 47274
Saturday, February 5th from 9:30am - noon
Monday, February 7th from 6pm - 8pm
Wednesday, February 9th from 6pm - 8pm
It is $150 for the first sign up, which includes the entire uniform and all registration costs.
If you do come to registration we will need to see your child's social security card, and birth certificate. We need a copy of the insurance card, and a copy of a recent physical. If they don't have a recent physical we can give you the form and you can have it filled out after you register.
We look forward to seeing you!

10/17/2021

Happy birthday Young Marines!

Happy Birthday Young Marines! The Young Marines received its charter on October 17, 1965.

08/08/2021

08/06/2021

Fall registration starts tomorrow!

08/02/2021

Don’t forget we have sign-ups starting this Saturday, August 7!