Lewes native and Cape High graduate promoted in the Navy
Lewes native and 2020 Cape Henlopen High School graduate Robert David Marcotte Jr. was recently promoted in rank in the Navy to petty officer second class.
Marcotte Jr., 22, is currently stationed in Oak Harbor, Wash., and has been in the Navy for four years. According to his grandmother, Irene Marcotte, he was an avid ROTC member and volunteer in high school, and he went straight into the Navy after graduating.
“We’re so proud of him,” she said.
Despite being stationed in Washington, he’s one of the several thousand sailors and personnel assigned to the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, an aircraft carrier in Norfolk, Va. He’s flown from Washington to Virginia as needed.
According to his grandmother, he has traveled to several countries as part of the Navy and has had a “really fun experience.”
His family primarily lives in the Rehoboth and Pot-Nets area. Many of his family members have served in the armed forces.
“He was a [really] good student and was well-liked everywhere,” his grandmother said. “People down here are proud of him.”
Ellen McIntyre is a reporter covering education and all things Dewey Beach. She graduated with a bachelor’s in journalism from the Penn State Schreyer Honors College in May 2024, after which she completed an internship writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 2023, she traveled to New Zealand to cover the Women’s World Cup as a freelancer for the Associated Press and saw her work published by outlets like The Washington Post and FOX Sports. She also has a variety of other reporting experience, covering crime and courts, investigations, politics and the arts. As a Hockessin, Delaware, native, she’s happy to be back in her home state, though she enjoys traveling and learning about new cultures. She also loves live music, reading, hiking and spending time in nature.
