Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Navy Ensign Marie Gallant and Navy Lt. Addison Carr met at sea on
the USS Antietam guided missile cruiser and just got engaged to marry. They are
stationed in Norfolk on different ships. “I was enlisted at first and went to
OCS,” she said as they cruised along the York River quietly. “No one in my
family was ever in the military. Not a lot of people can say they’ve been out
in the ocean and looked up at the stars.” She’s from San Diego and was
commissioned there on the aircraft carrier Midway, now a museum. “They didn’t
close the museum, so civilians were coming by in flip flops as we stood in our
whites. It was awesome.” Out at sea, “I’ve been on ships chasing typhoons back
to port, rolling 20 degrees to one side and then 20 degrees to the other.”
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