Tri-State Young Marines, formed in 1997, is the focal point for the marine corps youth drug demand reduction program. Their motto is to strengthen the lives of America's youth of ages 8 thru 18, male and female. It promotes a drug/alcohol free lifestyle through a continual drug prevention program, to promote mental, moral and physical development, and to instill the ideals of honesty, fairness, courage, respect, loyalty, dependability, attention to duty, love of God, and fidelity to the country and its institutions.