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Windsor’s HMCS Hunter Naval Reserve almost scored the Lucier triplets of Colchester in its new high school co-op program, the first of its kind in the navy.

Two out of three isn’t bad, though.

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Jacob Lucier, 17, jumped at the chance to join the navy and see the world when a navy recruitment bus came to his high school, E.J. Lajeunesse, offering the unique co-op program. He told his brother Noah, who got on board quickly.

“Jake was super interested in it,” Noah said recently. “As soon as I heard Jake was in, I was invested.”

Rounding out the Lucier triplets is sister Holly, who considered joining, but just couldn’t squeeze it in with her busy soccer schedule.

“To have all three triplets in there would have been incredible,” Noah said.

The brothers are among 16 students who enrolled in the program last week at a special ceremony at HMCS Hunter on Mill Street. The pilot project will see the students serve in the reserves after school, receive up to four high school credits and be paid to do their basic training in Quebec City this summer.