Marines put spotlight on Walkersville native Martin
By Greg Swatek gswatek@newspost.com Jul 3, 2020
Ever the adrenaline junkie, Meleah Martin now flies military fighter jets in excess of 1,000 miles per hour, nearly twice the speed of sound.
That's not something she could have even imagined in 2009, when she left her childhood home in Walkersville to continue her lacrosse career at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Martin's unforeseeable rise through the military ranks — from student and college lacrosse player to Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet pilot — was recently featured on the official website of the U.S. Marine Corps.
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