19-Year-Old Lennard High School Graduate Honored For Military Monday

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00:00Tampa Bay's Morning Crew want to honor and thank those who protect and serve our country.

00:05Time now for Military Monday on 99.5 QYK.

00:10We got Courtney on the phone for Military Monday. We get to honor her daughter today.

00:14Good morning, Courtney. How are you?

00:15Good morning. Thank you.

00:17We are glad you're on the show, but we got to learn about Alexia, your daughter.

00:20So first tell us where she went to high school here and then how she kind of determined to go into the Navy.

00:25She went to Leonard High School in Ruskin, Florida.

00:28Okay.

00:28She wanted to do anything in political science, but then she had a friend named Jasmine,

00:36and they both wanted to go into the military, and she decided she wanted to go into the Navy.

00:41That's where she is now.

00:42So what did you think about that, Mom, when Alexia came to you and told you that?

00:46I was pretty scared, pretty nervous, pretty scared.

00:48But knowing that her friend was going with her, she had a lot of support, too.

00:53Absolutely, and the people that helped them, they were really, really good, hands-on.

00:59Explaining everything to her.

01:01Told her, this is what you're going to do.

01:02This is what's going to happen.

01:03And she just had a great support system.

01:06So what year did she join the Navy?

01:08She joined last year.

01:09Oh, wow.

01:10She graduated and went right in.

01:12She's only 19 years old.

01:14Wow.

01:15All right.

01:15So a year in, she says, all right, Mom, joining the Navy.

01:18Now that she's a year in, when she calls home, by the way, she is stationed in Hawaii.

01:22Oh, nice.

01:23Oh, man.

01:24Fantastic.

01:25But anyway, now when she calls home, other than being in Hawaii, how does she speak about

01:29the Navy as far as, you know, what is she doing in the Navy now?

01:32And how do you feel like she's adapted to the military life?

01:35She absolutely loves it.

01:37She is a hospital apprentice, a courseman over there, and she helps make sure everybody's

01:43ready to be deployed.

01:45Wow.

01:45Oh, okay.

01:46Yes.

01:46So going back to when Alexia was even more of a kid, because she's only 19 now, you know,

01:50she grew up here in the Tampa Bay area.

01:52What were some of the things she was doing?

01:54She loved cheerleading.

01:55She cheered for the East Bay Bucks, which is a local organization over here.

02:00And then when she went to Leonard, she played flag football.

02:04Okay.

02:04So she played football for her four years at Leonard High School, and she was just really

02:09into political science.

02:11She was determined that she was going to be the next president.

02:14Wow.

02:14And then, you know, then she just said, okay, I want to be a nurse, and she just went from

02:20there.

02:21This is a fantastic story, and she sounds like she's in the exact right spot that she

02:26needs to be, because she has all these opportunities to do that.

02:28Yeah.

02:29When's the next time she gets to come home?

02:31We're trying to get her home for Christmas, but we don't know.

02:33Okay.

02:34All right.

02:34Gotcha.

02:34Well, listen, we want you to do this.

02:35Well, hopefully she will be home for Christmas.

02:37We want you to give her this $100 Amex gift card from Tampa Premium Outlets.

02:40Maybe mom and daughter can go have a little shopping spree or whatever, but just a way

02:45for us to say thank you so much for her service.

02:47Please give our love to her, and we are so thankful for her and you.

02:52All right.

02:52Thank you so much, and thanks for doing this.

02:54It is our absolute pleasure.

02:56We appreciate you, Courtney.

02:57Well, those are the stories we love hearing.

02:58Proud parents, proud siblings, proud children.

03:02We want to hear about that loved one in your life that serves our military or is a first

03:05responder in our community.

03:06Nominate them for Military Monday or First Responder Friday today.

03:09Just go to 99.5QIK.com.

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