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  • Airman survives refugee camp, sets goal as immigration lawyer

    Until the age of 11, Airman 1st Class Salat Ali awoke each day believing he wouldn’t live to be 18.His family had fled the civil war in Somalia in the 1990s, and he was born and raised in a Kenyan refugee camp, along with another 250,000 people–all clinging to the hope that they would be resettled

  • From gang member to Air Force Airman: You can choose your destiny

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Themoment Khennan Richards knew he needed to turn his life around came when he sawhis younger brother trying to join the same gang he was a member of.Richards,an Airman 1st Class with the 375th Force Support Squadron, said he didn’t wantthat type of lifestyle for his