Special Operations /
Training Officer
Vienna Young
Marines
As Young
Marines you will always find friends throughout your career from other units
that have different nationalities and religions. We all fall under one Nation and serve
as valuable tools that promote freedom together with young Americans thoughout
the United States of America. You
are especially valuable when not at drill, maintaining the discipline that makes
you even more special…a Young Marine.
At your next drill, why don’t you sit the unit’s Staff NCO’s in one area,
and the NCO’s in a completely different area. Since they are the leader’s of the unit,
and will be charged with teaching classes to subordinates if they truly follow
the leadership traits and principles at their unit, this will utilize the
“trickle down” method of education which studies have proven actually
works. Youth tend to look up to
people a couple years older then themselves instead of much older types like me
and the rest of the adult staff in their units.
In these two separate groups
will obviously be Young Marines of different racial, cultural, national, or
ethnic backgrounds. Start the
activity by choosing three of the following five scenarios and fulfill it.
A) Go to a festival,
celebration, or other event identified with one of the different individuals in
your group. At next drill, have a
report written on what you saw, learned, and found interesting.
B) Go to a church, school, or
organization between drills as a group to one of the different individuals you
pick. At next drill, have a report
written on what you saw, learned, and found interesting.
C) Break up in pairs and talk
to another Young Marine about what you know about your heritage and specific
family traditions.
D) As a group, pick a
nationality from one of the individuals in the group and imagine that you are a
UFO. You have come down to Earth to
learn about civilization. Ask
questions appropriately on what music, poetry, books, foods, media related shows
watched, etc. and then write down everything you have learned.
E) Go to a library or museum
to see a program or exhibit featuring one individual in your group. At next drill, write a report about what
was seen, heard, smelled, and things you learned.
Then, at another drill, bring both the Staff NCO’s and NCO’s together and
have a discussion on their learned decisions about individuals within their
group. If both groups were
separated until today, would the two groups be able to get along, or would there
be immediate tension to new ways unfamiliar to your group’s
ways?
Talk about a contribution
made to this nation by three different people, each from a different background
such as black American, white American, Native American, Hispanic-American,
Asian-American, or any other background of your choosing. Their backgrounds may be religious, as
well, such as Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc.
Do one of the
following:
A) Bring the whole unit
together and give a class on how all people are different and what you have
learned after seeing their ways of living.
B) Talk about some achievements that this country has accomplished by people from different nationality’s, religions, and beliefs pulling together and making the future a better place for all to live peacefully.