One year as First Sergeant or Master Sergeant

 

2. Citizenship

     Know all 50 states and capitals

     Know where Young Marine units are located

 

3. Leadership

    Demonstrate you are capable of instructing all ranks in leadership

   

4. Physical Fitness

    Pass PFT with 250 points or more

 

5. School

    Maintain a 3.0 grade point average

    Know and meet your school superintendent

 

6. Home and outside activities

    Show yourself to be a mature person, able to function well in scoiety

 

7. Personal habits

    Be neat, clean and properly dressed, polite and well mannered

 

8. Close order drill

     Demonstrate the capability to form, take reports, and drill a

     regiment

 

9. Other subjects

     Be proficient in all administrative aspects of the Young Marines

 

 

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur; Korea, 21 September 1950