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On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, about 15 members of the same Navy squadron pulled up to a house on Barrington Drive in Oak Harbor, armed with enough manpower and lawn equipment to tackle a city park.

They came to lend a hand and build camaraderie, but mostly to lift spirits.

“One of our shipmates has fallen ill and is unable to keep up his lawn,” said Cody Hughes, president of VAQ-129 First Class Petty Officers Association at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

“As a First Class association, we took it on ourselves to get together and come out here and clean up his lawn and get it to where it’s manageable.”

via www.whidbeynewstimes.com

That, my friends, is camaraderie of a type you will not find outside the service.