{"id":222394,"date":"2026-04-07T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:35:07","slug":"apopka-native-serves-with-seabees-in-u-s-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222394\/","title":{"rendered":"Apopka native serves with Seabees in U.S. Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"css-filter size-large bricks-lazy-hidden\" alt=\"Apopka native and Lake Brantley High School graduate Madison Herrera serves as a yeoman in Gulfport, Mississippi.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Web-Photo-35-1024x683.png\" data-type=\"string\" data- \/>Apopka native and Lake Brantley High School graduate Madison Herrera serves as a yeoman in Gulfport, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-credit\">Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Hunter Harwell, Navy Office of Community Outreach<\/p>\n<p>Petty Officer 3rd\u00a0Class Madison Herrera, an Apopka native,\u00a0is\u00a0serving\u00a0at the Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC) in Gulfport, Miss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing in the Navy means we have one common goal, which is to serve our country,\u201d Herrera said\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/navyoutreach.blogspot.com\/2026\/03\/apopka-native-serves-with-seabees-in-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a U.S. Navy press release<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cI\u00a0would like to thank my mom, Misty Stevenson, for her continuous support.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Herrera graduated from Lake Brantley High School in 2022 and joined the Navy three years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined the Navy for college,\u201d Herrera said.\u00a0\u201cI wanted to go into nursing or be an ultrasound technician.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Herrera currently serves as a yeoman for the Atlantic Fleet Seabees, which \u201cprovide a wide range of construction in support of operating forces, including roads, bridges, bunkers, airfields and logistics bases,\u201d according to\u00a0Ensign Han Fiori-Puyu\u00a0in the\u00a0release. Seabees also provide support for disaster relief, complete civic action projects, and \u201cprovide anti-terrorism and force protection for personnel and construction projects.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Herrera completed\u00a0additional\u00a0training at the Expeditionary Combat School in 2023, where she \u201clearned about security, tactical and weapons proficiency skills,\u201d according to her statement in the release.\u00a0She also took pride in being \u201cthe only sailor taking care of the administrative side here in my command for a while.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether serving in the construction force or in a supporting role, the sailors of NCBC Gulfport personify the \u2018Can Do\u2019 attitude of Seabees and are ready to serve and support warfighters globally,\u201d Fiori-Puyu\u00a0said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apopka native and Lake Brantley High School graduate Madison Herrera serves as a yeoman in Gulfport, Mississippi. Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-222394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}