Lasting impressions. That's what some of the US Marines at fleet week hope they are leaving behind.Fleet week is starting to wind down. The first of the ships has pulled out and more are going by the day. The week officially ends Wednesday.
Staff Sgt Charles Robert McAdams has spent day after day talking to kids and adult alike about his job and being a Marine. He can't help but think some of them will be the next generation of the corps.
“Knowing these kids are going to replace you one day and do the same job, it's motivating”, he said.
He says that's what happened to him.
“When I was a kid, I seen a marine one time, he was a recruiter, and I just remember how good his uniform looked and how he carried himself. That lasting image stayed inside my mind, even to this day,” he said, “That's why its important that these kids get the full experience while we're out there and we take the time to show them around so they have that image too.”
And he hopes he become become that image in another kid's mind.
Listen to a story with one of the kids on the USS Wasp who was enamored with the Marines(and thier planes) here:
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