Captain Clifton Payton, the officer selection officer for Recruiting Station Montgomery, Alabama, says a few words about the significance of becoming a Marine Corps officer before commissioning Mary Sanders to the rank of second lieutenant at Coleman Coliseum in Alabama State University, May 12, 2017. “To Mary, the bars that you’re going to wear, although very small, should make you want to work every day to where you feel the weight of those bars on your heart, because today and every day leading up to this has been about you; every day after this is about your Marines.”

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