Christian is one of 90 semifinalists chosen for this year’s Military Child of the Year hosted by Operation Homefront. His father is an active duty Marine with the Marine Corps Combat Development Command aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico. The nine-year-old cancer survivor wants to be a Marine when he grows up like his father and hopes to raise $100,000 for childhood cancer research. - Christian is one of 90 semifinalists chosen for this year’s Military Child of the Year hosted by Operation Homefront. His father is an active duty Marine with the Marine Corps Combat Development Command aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico. The nine-year-old cancer survivor wants to be a Marine when he grows up like his father and hopes to raise $100,000 for childhood cancer research.