A 17-year-old U.S. Marines recruit was looking forward to his graduation at the end of the grueling 13-week boot camp, but a medical emergency landed him in the operating room the day of the ceremony.
Thats why hospital staff made sure he received the special honor he deserved, playing the Marines' Hymn and lining the hallways as Micah Wooten was being transported to a new room after his emergency surgery.
He was laying in the hospital bed, but he stiffened himself up and perked himself up and he was smiling, his mom, Missy Wooten, of Newberry, South Carolina, told InsideEdition.com.
It had been 13 weeks thats how long boot camp is, Wooten said.
The procedure was uneventful, and when hospital staff were preparing to wheel him into post-op, they told his family their plans to celebrate his graduation, even though his medical emergency caused him to miss it at the base.