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My name is Jean-Claude Boy . I'm an A1C

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working within the security forces . I

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just come back from technical school

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and I'm currently in my best order . I

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come from the west part of Africa ,

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from a country which is uh Ivory Coast ,

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Cote d'Ivoire in French . I moved here

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to the United States in 2018 . Because

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I met my wife and we decided to get

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married , we decided to move all the

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way up to North Dakota and since then I

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live in Fargo and uh I met staff

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sergeant Jessica . She just uh .

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Encouraged me to join the Air Force

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because I was willing to go back to

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school and then get my degrees . I will

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have more assistance with uh nutrition

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and stuff like that and uh on top of

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that I can pretty much build my career

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in uh the computer science and uh that

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was pretty interesting to me . I tried

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to join right away because the Air

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Force wasn't . Allowed and permanent

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resident people to join their national ,

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so he told me to go get my citizenships

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and once I get the citizenships I will

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be welcome . But the citizen process is

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long , so , uh , I try first of all to

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go get my degrees and then maybe after

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that I will get my citizenship . I got

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a phone call from Master surgeon Beer

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Hall . He had a good news for me . He

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told me that the Air Force decided to

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enlist a permanent resident . So if

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you're still interested , you can come

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to my office and then we can discuss

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about that . So by that time . So , OK ,

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cool , made an appointment with him .

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We met each other . We discussed about

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the SAP test and everything and then

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everything got pretty much set up

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pretty quick . The test was good . I

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was OK to join the Air Force by that

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time , so this is basically how I got

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listed in the Air Force and here am I .