Junior Marines ready for more responsibilities in rifle platoon

[thewookie]

Lance Cpl. Taylor Adkins has been a Marine for nearly a year and a half and is already taking advantage of leadership opportunities.

The 20-year-old rifleman said he knows that roles of being in charge of Marines or equipment isn’t something that’s handed out; rather it’s something Marines his rank are striving for.


He’s currently serving with 1st Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, in Marjah, Afghanistan, and Marines here are beginning to show excitement about the deployment’s upcoming culmination.


Some senior Marines serving in leadership positions in rifle platoons, mostly noncommissioned officers, said they’re ready for new duty assignments in the Marine Corps. Others say they’re ready to get back to the civilian world and go to college.


No matter where they go, Adkins said they’re mentoring when necessary and leaving behind opportunities for junior Marines to step up and take their place.


“We’re the ones who are going to be in charge one day,” said Adkins, a La Vernia, Texas, native. “So when it comes to a point where we have to deploy somewhere else again, we’ll be ready to take on leadership responsibilities.”

Read more here: http://www.marines.mil/unit/1stmardi...x#.T6qQWVIrL1Y

[FaDeD]

I know him, good Marine right there. Def a leader among leaders.