Joseph Smith, a Bayside Academy student from Fairhope,

Joseph Smith, a Bayside Academy student from Fairhope, Akabama, pours water to rinse off the soap at while cleaning the ground of Mmthe National Museum of the Marine Corps during Marine Corps Recruiting Command’s 2018 Summer Leadership and Character Development Academy in Triangle, Virginia, July 21. 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. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Phuchung Nguyen)