Former Youth Challenge graduate inspires cadets at Class 57 graduation

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – Practically 200 cadets graduated in Class 57 of the Mississippi Nationwide Guard’s Youth Problem Academy.

Saturday morning, 196 cadets graduated throughout a ceremony on the Forrest County Multi-Objective Facility.

Youth Problem is a 22-week, military-style course for at-risk youth and different college students.

Cadets can get their GED or study job expertise.

Featured speaker for the occasion was Mississippi Nationwide Guard soldier Larry Nix, a former Youth Problem cadet who graduated from Class 14 of Youth Problem in 2001.

Nix is a grasp sergeant within the 1st Battalion of the one hundred and fifty fifth Infantry Regiment in McComb.

“What the Youth Problem Program did for me, it gave me construction, it gave me steering, it pushed me on a distinct trajectory,” Nix stated. “Clearly, it gave me a really profitable profession, as a result of I joined whereas I used to be in YCP.

“I hope that (the graduating cadets) take the steering and the construction and understand that there’s a success story in each one among them and so they simply have to seek out it and let it learn itself out.”

Practically 11,000 cadets have graduated from the Youth Problem Program since 1994.

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