Junior Rank – Skills & Goals for Corporal and Sergeant
The following are examples of the skills to be learned and goals for Young Marines in the junior ranks.
- Knowledge of key events in Young Marine and US Marine Corps history
- Environmentally safe waste disposal in the field
- Hiking techniques
- Discussion of dangerous animals
- Measuring distances on topographical maps
- Parts of the compass and their functions
- Orienting a map using a compass
- Encouraging friends to stay away from tobacco, alcohol and drugs
- Avoiding stage freight
- Defining leadership
- Qualities of a leader
- Eleven principles of leadership
- Duties of a Young Marine Assistant Squad Leader, Squad Leader, Young Marine Platoon Guide, Young Marine Color Sergeant and Young Marine Color Guard Rifleman
- American values
- History of the National Anthem and the flag
- Advanced first aid
- Factors that cause weight loss and gain
- Execution of column movements, saluting, and facing movements
