1. United States Military Cadets (Puerto Rico) is part of Special Army Cadets, Inc., a Military Youth Program (M.Y.P.), non-profit, and volunteer organization registered at the Puerto Rico's State Department under registry number 21971 since October 17, 1991.  It was founded by  former US Army Sergeant Francisco Millán and other prior service members.
2. Our organization's main goal is to erradicate youth delinquency by providing crime prevention courses, trainings, and extracurricular activities; all provided under a military enviroment.
3. The military enviroment stated above is based on the United States Army structure and organization and provided by well-trained, volunteer adult leaders and instructors.  The use of military insignia, uniforms, customs and cortesies, command structure, and overall organization is for the sole purpose to instill discipline, respect, and loyalty among our members.
4. We also provide extracurricular activities like: hotel stays, trips, sightseeing, sports tournaments, going to cinemas, and many others, supervised by adult leaders and parents.

1. The member's involvement in these activities, alongside our Military Youth Program, are insured by the National Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico (NALIC) as April, 2000 with a insurance cover up to $10,000 in case of an accidental injury or illness and/or loss or a limb or death.
2. This insurance covers one hour before and one hour after our operations.  Also cover all organizational activities held outside our regular area of operations (usually at a public or private school).
3. The insurance is covered by the member's admission fee ($20.00 as January, 2000) and renewable each member's anniversary date or October 1st, what comes first.
4. The insurance policy states that, if a member get ill or injured during operations time, the member is full covered and we must bring him/her to the nearest medical facility for initial treatment.

1. The term "adult leader", as used in this document, refers to any person who had reached his/her 18th birthday and holds, by comission, a position of authority inside our organization.  All adult leaders must have all the requirements necessary, for all members, to belong in our program.  Also, adult leaders must pass an investigation and screening test to verify their status in society.
2. All adult leaders and instructors are volunteers, but in order to work with our members, they must have all saturdays available and comply with all the General Director's prerrogatives.
3. Adult leaders and instructors must possess a Good Conduct certificate given by the Police Department and a Health Certificate given by the Health Department.
4. After meeting the adult leader's criteria, the adult leaders are appointed by the General Director to commisioned officer and/or instructor positions.  If there are no vacancies, they are appointed as Seniors or Assistants.
5. No adult leader, in a commisioned or instructor status, can fire or request a member's discharge without the consent of the General Director.

1. Instructors are rotated through the companies as needed by the General Director and are under direct supervision of the Executive Director and/or the Company Commanders..
2. Instructors cannot intervine with minors or conduct any kind of external training without written permission from the General Director and/or the unit's Company Commanders.
3. Only Instructors are required to summit a resumé or curriculum vitae as part of the application for entry into our organization and for the training to be offered to our members.
4. Instructors must wear a Class B uniform at all times, except when engaged in a field training exercise and/or any encampment activity, when they must use the Battle Dress Uniform.
5. Instructors, in the chain of command, are appointed (by the General Director) to the rank of Master Chief Warrant Officer 5 and above.
6. No adult leader, in a commisioned or instructor status, can fire or request a member's discharge without the consent of the General Director.

1. To be part of the Military Youth Program, all new members must comply with the following requirements:

1. Members who belonged to another MYP must bring their former certification papers (diplomas, identification card, and so on) alongside with a small resumé of all trainings and courses taken.  Members with prior MYP service will receive an organizational service compensation following this formula: For each year of service in another MYP, it'll receive three months of service in ours.  We don't convalidate ranks and/or positions from another MYPs as all of our positions must be earned by engaging our own examinations, tests, and trainings.
2. Exception to this rule are members who participated in the following organizations (again: we don't convalidate any ranks/positions from these organizations in our own organization, only service time that may conclude in some advanced promotions in our organization -see our Age Group Ranking System for more details):

1. Members who study or formerly studied at a Jr.ROTC-sponsored school/military academy are also covered in the above rules.
2. These rules only applies to members between 10 and 17 years old that were members of those bona-fide groups.  Adults (18 and up) are encouraged to check in our units first for vacancies.

1. Each unit is assembled as an Army-style, company-size unit with several adult leaders designated as Company Commander and Executive Officer (or Administrative/Security).
2. Each company have several platoons in accordance with the training given.  For example, an Initial Entry Training (I.E.T.) company will have only one platoon; an Advanced Individual Training (A.I.T.) or One Station Unit Training (O.S.U.T.) company will have two or more platoons (one I.E.T. platoon for new members and one or more A.I.T. platoons).
3. Each company will have assigned minor leaders acting as company's First Sergeant and several others acting as Platoon Sergeants, Section Sergeants, Squad and Team Leaders as needed.  Only the Company Commander can recommend for promotion the individuals who met all requirements for the rank and positions to be covered.
4. All the adult and minor leaders stated above will be promoted to those positions by the General Director and/or the Executive Director after meeting the position's requirements.

1. Our units are established in public schools or where permission is given to conduct our meetings.  Meetings are held each Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (this is the organization's main timeframe- it can vary from unit daily schedules, which usually are 4-hours training schedules divided in several activities).
2. Our daily training schedule is as follows (local commanders can change it IAW their local needs and activities with the General Director's prior approval):

1. Members are given 10-minute breaks for each training hour and an 1-hour lunch hour.  Each break/lunch time will be supervised by an adult leader and/or an certified adult instructor.
2. Local commanders can arrange food selling with his/her local Parent's Council for the lunch time if time permit such endeveour.  Otherwise, members must be given enough time to reach any food facilities in the area (supervised by any adult leader available and in groups) or to bring their own food to eat inside the facilities.
3. Funds raised by this method can be used by the Parent Council for their extracurricular activities but must have record of each spends.

1. A 1-year contract is made between the school's director (or facilities' POC) and our organization's General Director based in our agreement to maintain the facilities and provide physical security measures and the school's agreement to provide a classroom, bathrooms, water supply, and an area for our daily operations (such as a basketball court, parking lot, and so on).
2. This contract can be terminated by one of the parts involved with a 30-day previous written notification stating the reasons for the termination.
3. Contracts can be re-arranged after the first year to include or exclude areas or services.  Also, it can be terminated after that time period by any of the parts involved.
4. The use of any drugs, alcohol and/or tobacco, the use of any unauthorized equipment (weapons, knifes, vehicles, uniforms, insignia, and so on) and the possesion of any pornographic material is strictly forbidden inside our organization and inside the facilities in which we operate.  Adults and Members caught with or suspicious to have those materials will be punished in accordance with our organization's laws and regulations and reported to the proper local authorities.

1. Parent Councils can be arranged as a Company Commander's auxiliary group in the unit's extracurricular activities only.
2. The Parent Council do not have any direct participation inside the organization's Military Training Program nor in the staff's decisions regarding this program.
3. Parent Councils are the General Director's prerrogative and only the General Director can approve the creation of these counseling groups.  Parent Council members must comply with the same requirements stated above for adult leaders and should be elected by the rest of the members' parents and tutors for a 6-month term.  Only the following positions are covered:

Part 10.    Training Courses

1. Our organization provide several trainings and courses to enrich the military enviroment where our members thrive.  All members must comply with all the trainings requirements prior to their graduation.  Instructors must provide study materials to the trainees and further examinations to them to test their acknoledge in a particular task from the training/course.
2. The first "real" military training taken by our members is the Initial Entry Training (I.E.T.), also known as Basic Member Training.
3. This training last three months and the member is trained in the following twelve organizational tasks:

1. After final examinations, the trainees must also take a 3-day field training exercise and the following organizational tests:

1. The Advanced Individual Trainings (A.I.T.) are 3-month training courses specially prepared to start the member's career (Primary Military Occupational Skills (P.M.O.S.)).
2. Members can chose one of all the available M.O.S. in their unit to start his/her career.  Members who failed one M.O.S. are required to take it again or change to another A.I.T.
3. P.M.O.S. have civilian counterparts that will route the member toward that particular field.  The organizational P.M.O.S. available are:

1. After final examinations, the trainees must also take a 3-day field training exercise and the following organizational tests:

Part 11.    Uniform Code of Member Justice (Overview)

1. The Military Youth Program's Uniform Code of Member Justice (UCMJ) was created to instill a sense of legalness and overall discipline and respect among our members.
2. The complete UCMJ is kept at HQ, USMC-PR, but copies of the most used regulations and articles, along with all of the Article 15 and Article 31 bylaws are given to the unit Co Cdr's.
3. The organization's Judge Advocate Group (JAG) is the governing body called to enforce and prosecute the UCMJ's regulations and articles to all members.
4. To do so, the JAG use all members of the commisioned officers, non-commisioned officers, instructors and the Parent Council corps to watch over and report any violation of the UCMJ to the JAG.
5. The JAG is composed of:

1. When a member of the JAG is involved in a violation of the UCMJ, then is substituted by an adult leader and/or any other CO/NCO available.
2. The JAG last four members (Bn Cdr, Co Cdr, MGS and the 1SG) are the ones who assemble all Court Martials.  The General Director and the Executive Director main duty is to ensure proper punishment and application of the UCMJ regulations and articles and the ones who approve/disapprove any recommendations from the Court Martials.
3. Members are entitled to a counselor, but the counselor must be an adult leader in a commisioned officer status (not an instructor or volunteer adult leader).
4. There are two types of Court Martials under Article 31, UCMJ: Summary and General.  Summary Court Martials are assembled by request of the Company Commander and/or any commisioned officer to deal with a member's violation ASAP.  A General Court Martial is called upon by any of the JAG members to cope up with more serious violations.
5. Summary Court Martials are composed of:

1. General Court Martials are composed of:

1. Members are entitled all the rights from the Miranda Act.  Also, members can opt for a Court Martial or an Article 15, if it is his/her first offense and it's a minor one.  Members can opt for Summary and/or General Court Martial, if it is a serious offense.
2. Punishments under Article 15 and/or Article 31 are given in the following order:

• All Honor Court decisions are final, but members can appeal the case directly to the Executive Director in no less than 30 days.
• Appeals will be examinated and a written evaluation will be sent to the Honor Court members in no less than 15 days with any recommendations.
• The Honor Court will assemble again with a final decision.  This one is unappellable and cannot be debated.
• The UCMJ have several parts: General Regulations and Articles and the so-called "Laws".  We are going to discuss only the Laws and will mention only the Regulations' names:

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