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From our National Young Marine of the Year Young Marines Xpert Media Management Honored for Marketing Excellence Closing the Gate on Drugs Wins Bronze Award in Internal Communications Programs Xpert Media Management XMM won a Bronze in the 2016 Pyramid Award Compe- tition sponsored by Promo- tional Products Association International PPAI. Thirty- Five Gold Silver and Bronze winners were recognized at the PPAI Awards Presenta- tion Reception held Janu- ary 12 2016 at the House of Blues in conjunction with The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas. The Pyramid Awards first introduced in 1958 have grown more relevant with time by recog- nizing campaigns that demonstrate the effective use of promotional products packaging and copywriting to create integrated marketing com- munications programs and quantifi- able results. Winners of PPAI Pyra- mid Awards are recognized for the outstanding creative use of promo- tional products in a variety of client programs and campaigns. We are very pleased to recognize Xpert Media Management with the Pyramid Award said Paul Bellan- tone CAE president and CEO at PPAI. XMMs dedication to so- lution-based selling combined with creative inspiration and the ability to deliver promo- tional strategies resonate with customers and deliver results. Xpert Media Management won the 2016 PPAI Pyramid Award in the category of Internal Com- munications for developing the Closing the Gate on Drugs in- formational package in partner- ship with the Young Marines. Winners were selected by a panel of industry professionals and indepen- dent outside marketing and adver- tising professionals. By YMSgtMaj Lucas Ward 2015 National Young Marine of the Year As my tenure as the National Young Marine of the Year winds down and I look ahead to life beyond the organization and my time in high school I am faced with tough decisions about where to go and what to do with my life. I know that these choices are those that everyone will face or has faced as a high school graduate. At 18 it is tough to decide what I want to do for the entire rest of my life. Fortunately I have a leg up as we all do because I have a set of skills from the Young Marines that most of my peers do not.I know that no matter where I end up I will be able to succeed because of what I have learned as a Young Marine. Additionally and more importantly I know that every Young Marine has the potential for success be- cause of the lessons learned in their time in the program. All of us know this already but the Young Marines is not a recruitment program for the armed forces and members arent required to join the military. In fact some of the best Young Marines I have ever known and most of my role mod- els in the program did not go on to join the military. It doesnt matter where we end up or what we are doing so long as we are the best at it. In the words of Mr. Alvin Hendricks It doesnt matter what you do.If you want to be a janitor that is perfectly fine but you better be the best janitor ever because you are a Young Marine. Being a Young Marine does not set us up solely for success in the military but but for success in every way for the rest of our lives. I encourage you as Young Marines to strive for success in everything you do both while you are in the program and after. The Young Marines will give you all the tools to succeed - being a leader and an example in the work- place being prepared to and working hard and being used to thinking quickly and calmly no matter what the situation - all of these things are skills that even basic Young Marines learn and all of these will help us succeed in the future.As long as you are happy with what you do in the future and you do the best you possibly can then you will truly have succeeded as a Young Marine. YMSgtMaj Lucas Ward 2015 National Young Marine of the Year ESPRIT Page 3