Europeans and Americans have been taking to their windows and balconies to applaud health care workers on the front lines of the novel coronavirus crisis. Now, sailors on a tiny Pacific island are doing the same for Marines who've come to their aid.
Crew members from the Navy's aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt coordinated a thank-you cheer for Marines with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion. The Japan-based Marines arrived in Guam in early April and have been assisting the more than 4,000 members of the Roosevelt's crew who have faced weeks of quarantine after a widespread outbreak on their ship.
Capt. Vicente Huerta, a military police officer with the battalion, described the moment in a Navy video.
"They all came out on their balconies and just started cheering and clapping," Huerta said. "I started getting goosebumps, and I was like, 'OK, this is a different type of deployment.'"
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