Senior Rank Skills & Goals for Staff Sergeant and Gunnery Sergeant.
The following are examples of the skills to be learned and goals for Young Marines in the senior ranks.
- Role of the Marine Corps League and Marine Corps to the Young Marines
- Survival psychology and strategy
- Predicting weather
- Judging distances
- Navigating at night
- Connections between drug use and the consequences for individual and society
- Principles and methods of instructions
- Preparation of a lesson plan
- Types of verbal support
- Visual aids
- Three styles of leadership
- Problem solving
- Duties of Young Marine Platoon Sergeant, Young Marine Parade Sergeant, Young Marine Platoon Leader and Young Marine Instructor
- Three types of government
- Reading the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States
- Structure of the United States government
- Qualification in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)