U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. Cameron Crow was recently welcomed home after 13 months of deployments to Thailand and Japan.

The son of a Navy veteran, Cameron joined the Marines in 2009, and is assigned to the 1st Marine Division’s 1st Combat Engineer Battalion.

He says he loves what he stands for and feels like he belongs, and that he might make a career of the Marines. According to his mom, Carlene, Cameron knows he’ll be deployed to fight – and is ready.