Quarantined Sailors Take to Balconies to Cheer for the Marines Helping Them

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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