Marlborough – Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Lantron, a 2003 Marlborough High School graduate and Marlborough native, is a mass communication specialist serving with Armed Forces Network Rota. As such, Lantron is living and working at a Navy base in Rota, Spain in the U.S. Navy, which protects and defends America on the world’s oceans.
With more than 70 percent of the world covered by water, 80 percent of the world’s population living near those waters, and 90 percent of the world’s commerce shipped over those waters, having Lantron serving his country matters. Because the Navy is always deployed around the world around the clock, it provides America nearly immediate response to anything. The ability to act from the sea and being uniquely positioned on the world’s oceans help give the Navy the power to protect America’s interests anywhere, and at any time.