MI Youth Challenge

Recorded on July 26, 2008 using a Flip Video camcorder. Hi everyone! Well, here we have some action video of the Michigan Youth Challenge kids and drill instructors in our dining facility. The program is designed and run by the Michigan National Guard to gives "at risk" kids a second chance and put some hope and discipline in their lives. We served over 5,098 meals during this two week annual training. There many hot and exhuasting days cooking in the kitchen. I'm tired! Looking forward to catching up on videos and with dear friends. Thanks for watching! ~Darl

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[breadmenv]

Well I'm a cycle 22 graduate and SGT Orr's neighbor and if you take the time to THINK that this is during pre-challeNGe or phase one, whichever they called it then (see how the whole platoon's boots aren't bloused) so it's before you can expect the standards to be completely fulfilled. So stop talking down about the academy and take the time to figure out what your talking about first.

[battlebauble]

@breadmenv I appreciate the added perspective. No disrespect was intended on my part. The academy is a great program and the instructors are highly esteemed. Listen, I'm an old soldier. Check out an old movie called "Tribes" (1970) starring Jan Michael Vincent. The American military tradition and society is not what it used to be in my eyes. I'm just lamenting that fact alone in general and not putting down the academy, the students or the instructors specifically. My sincerest apology.

[internaldebate]

In Alaska it wasn't a place for "troubled or failing youth" it was simply a better place to learn and respect yourself. they used to go by that description but changed it when more than troubled youth started coming to the academy. it changed how people looked at the people that went there, made it less like a prison. it just frustrates me that they don't have high enough standards to do things how they were ment to be done and give people the idea that its only for teens that are in trouble.

[battlebauble]

@internaldebate Thank you for your insightful comments! I see the same here in the National Guard itself. We are getting a lot more convicts and recruits with low standards of morality and ethics. It used to be people were more motivated to join out of a sense of duty and patriotism. Boot camp wasn't coed in my day. I've see a lot of lowering of standards and compromise over the years. Our country ain't what it used to be.

[krael091]

dude.. this is some bull... at the ycp in minden, louisiana we would not have gotten by with that sloppy shit. Everything had to be done at the same time and same pace. It had to be uniform. You marched everywhere you went

[battlebauble]

I can't argue with your points. I know in the deep south they take their military traditions with a more serious mindset. You find many more schools there with rifle clubs and ROTCs, and that is a fact.

[ADarden09]

@breadmenv shut your suck graduate.lol no just kidding but it was just not acceptable durring my cycle alot of the things I see here. I mean I see no speed at all cadets are not doing the pt and nothings happening to them and thats not even including the crap i seen when I went up there to the academy after graduation omg.



[asqwwe]

Wow,Cycle 24 was tough, pre challenge ayway, i was there!

[akarseme]

cycle 23, wow i remember sgt orrs cadences now. is it just me or when you hurd the left right thing you got scared a little

[MoSion226]

cycle 4 when all the cadre were rookies and still learning the rules of the academy we were cursed out and pt`d all the day long GOOD TIMES CADETS GOOD TIMES !!!!!

[ADarden09]

@KelferMookie lol na it changed me from a stiff frowning gangster to a loving man with a fun filled future.lol

[ADarden09]

@breadmenv ok if u were to walk in there right now. how would they address you. If its not graduate then stfu. because obviously we've been there. I would never talk down on the academy so once again stfu. and I still mean what I said because pre-challenge is where u iron out the wrinkles so..... stfu that is all

[LoneWolf420Juggalo]

@ADarden09 You got that right bro, we had our shit together, there was no movin around. Cycle17 was the shit, man i miss it