When you launch a career it is nice to get off to a good start. Little Egg Harbor’s Justin Lagonegro has checked off that box.
AHOY: Justine Lagonegro is a U. S. Navy top sailor and military excellence award winner. (Supplied Photo)
In July, Lagonegro, now Seaman Apprentice Lagonegro, kicked off his career with the U.S. Navy by winning the Military Excellence Award by graduating as the top sailor in the Navy’s Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. It is the Navy’s only boot camp, training some 40,000 recruits per year, typically for 10 weeks.
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