Ensign Madison Mason, a 2013 Marysville High School graduate and resident of Marysville, is serving in the U.S. Navy and participating in Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise. She is a strike officer aboard the USS Lake Erie, which is currently operating outside of San Diego. She is in charge of leading sailors who are responsible for the vertical launch system. She said she applies the lesson she learned from Marysville to her work in the Navy, and “my hometown is a family atmosphere and coming into the Navy, I feel this ship is family.” She said her proudest achievement in the Navy has been when she was “recently asked to reenlist one of my sailors” for her first time. Mason said for her, serving means doing “what you can for others,” and it’s about “protecting the ones you love and care about.”
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