Commander's Message

Commander Alirio Orduna (Father), with Chief Exectuvive Officer X.O. Osbert Orduna (Son)

In today’s neighborhoods we interact with multi-ethnic and multi-racial families with different demographic and psychographic goals. Today’s intrinsic family values are deteriorating because of the fast changes that are taking place in our communities and in the United States as a whole. Some parents are no longer concerned for the future of their children, this occurs because parents are not taking the time to teach them the values they need in life, or able to partake in life as they grow from childhood to adulthood. Today’s nuclear families are being destroyed due to ignorance, lack of self-esteem, and parent’s lack of concerns for their duties and responsibilities related to their children. This is why the New York Military Youth Cadets is providing attention and help to our communities youth before they are lost to society’s ills.

The New York Military Youth Cadets will make a difference by creating a safer environment for our youth, their peers and the community. We will give the youth the torch of life, resurrection and leadership to provide them with the guidance that much of our youth does not have because they are surrounded with people that are negative towards society.

The New York Military Youth Cadets instills professionalism in our Corps by conducting our operations as a quasi-military organization. The primordial foundational aspects are to aid, educate, protect, promote the physical and emotional health and well-being of our communities youth. This is a unique opportunity to build patriotism and family values.

The New York Military Youth Cadets has become the foundation that our children need to share their experiences with each other. We strive to teach them a military structure of responsibility, loyalty, discipline, integrity, conduct through our Uniform Code of Cadet Justice.

I love this country for giving me the opportunity to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps and therefore, I feel that it is my duty and responsibility to continue the proud traditions that were instilled upon me by them.