Maj. Gen. James Bierman, commanding general of Marine Corps Recruiting Command (MCRC), hands the Excellence in Leadership Award to William Salyers, a student at RS-Central High School in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, during MCRC’s 2018 Summer Leadership and Character Development Academy graduation ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, July 22. The leadership award is given to the students who best displayed motivation, cooperation, teamwork leadership and esprit de corps. More than 200 students were accepted into the academy, hand-selected by a board of Marines who look to fin


Maj. Gen. James Bierman, commanding general of Marine Corps Recruiting Command (MCRC), hands the Excellence in Leadership Award to William Salyers, a student at RS-Central High School in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, during MCRC’s 2018 Summer Leadership and Character Development Academy graduation ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, July 22. The leadership award is given to the students who best displayed motivation, cooperation, teamwork leadership and esprit de corps. More than 200 students were accepted into the academy, hand-selected by a board of Marines who look to find attendees with similar character traits as Marines. Inspired by the Marine Corps' third promise of developing quality citizens, the program was designed to challenge and develop the nation's top-performing high school students so they could return to their communities more confident, selfless and better equipped to improve the lives of those around them. .


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