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Sep 9, 2013

From Left: 1st Sgt Clinton Summers, Sgt. Kyle Lloyd, Lance Cpl. Jeremy Johnson, Nik Cela and Lance Cpl. Matthew Pickett pose in front of an M1A2 Abrams tanks after Cela was made an honorary member of Charlie Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, August 26, 2013. Cela, from Staten Island, N.Y., spent a day with Marines from Charlie Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. He suffers from cystic fibrosis, and has always wanted to ride on a tank. He was surprised by his mother and the Marines of 2nd Tank Battalion with the opportunity to ride a tank and become an honorary member of Charlie Company. Summers is the Company first sergeant, Lloyd is a tank commander and Wichita, Kan., native; Johnson is a gunner and Dayton, Ohio native; and Pickett is a tank driver and Bossier City, La., native; all the Marines are with Charlie Company.

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