US Soldiers in Afghanistan become citizens on Veterans Day

Deployed soldiers become citizens on Veterans Day
DVIDS
ISAF Regional Command South
Story by Sgt. Antony Lee
November 12, 2013

Newly naturalized U.S. Army soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan hold their certificates of naturalization as they pose with Robert Daum, deputy district director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Bangkok, Pius D. Bannis, the Bangkok District director for USCIS, Maj. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, Regional Command (South) and 4th Infantry Division commanding general, Dr. S. Ken Yamashita, the director of program coordination for the U.S. embassy in Kabul, and Command Sgt. Maj. Brian M. Stall, RC(S) and 4th Inf. Div. command sergeant major, after a ceremony at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on Veterans Day, in which they officially became U.S. citizens.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Antony S. Lee)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Seven deployed members of the U.S. Army officially became citizens of the nation they have sworn to support and defend during a naturalization ceremony at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on Veterans Day.

Staff Sergeant Dison Luzama, from Micronesia; Sgt. Franko Solano-Sambrano, from Venezuela; Sgt. Rajiv Hewitt, from Jamaica; Cpl. Sourivon Sathahone-Ramos, from Cuba; Spc. Franklin Pascua, from the Philippines; Pfc. Murphy Balsomi, from Congo and Pfc. Kemar Wedderburn, from Jamaica, declared their oath of allegiance and were sworn in as U.S. citizens during the ceremony.

“It’s indescribable, in a good way,” said Balsomi, an Infantryman with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, who lives in Dallas.
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