 Meet the Mercado family. They have served in the United States Navy for three generations. In the beginning, everybody was enlisted as a steward's man and everybody wanted to change rate, but I had the good opportunity to change right away after bootcamp. Well, I think his generation, you know, my father's generation kind of paved the way for the rest of us. You know, I feel I didn't see any discrimination. It was, you were advanced and you did well based on how hard you worked. And that is probably a large part due to those men back then who enlisted and joined the Navy to serve and had to put up probably with a lot more than I had to. Yeah, my grandfather loves the Navy. He is about the Navy, so him telling stories about when he was back in the Navy back in the day, you know, I get to see I get to work with Master Chiefs and kind of see what his role was. So it's very neat to be able to see that. After a 24 year long career Master Chiefs Storekeeper Victorino Mercado retired and his son carried on his legacy by joining the Academy. Well, I was really proud and as a matter of fact there were times, you know, while he was in high school we helped fill up his application, but I never twisted his arm. As you get older and you think of the possibility, you look up and say, hey, I could one day be a CEO of a ship. That'd be kind of nice, you know. I could be there and I could be leading 300 and some sailors, you know, on a destroyer. That'd be pretty good. You take it one step at a time. You know, you transfer, you do your best, you look up and say, hey, maybe I could be that guy or gal. And then when you're given that opportunity, you say, wow, isn't this great? I think there's a natural tendency to look up and say, God, I'd like to be able to be like dad. But then there's pressure there, you know, with my son and what he wanted to do. And so trying to give him that space to decide what he wants to do. And I didn't think he would want to push on and join the Navy. But he came in and said, well, maybe he will go to the Naval Academy and now he's deployed and flying missions in the Arabian Gulf. So it's a pretty proud moment. I felt pretty comfortable joining the Navy and I had any questions that they'd be able to answer them and give me their advice on their experiences in the past. I joined the Navy because I wanted to be a part of Naval aviation. I've always wanted to be a part of the big Navy team. Whether serving as a Master Chief Storekeeper, a Strike Group Commander or a Naval Aviator, the Mercados continue their legacy of success in the United States Navy, one generation at a time. From here on in, God knows only what will happen.