Spc. Alfred Kollie is a petroleum supply specialist serving with E Company, Task Force Wolfpack, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, on Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan. Kollie emigrated to the United States from west Africa, where he spent much of his life in a refugee camp escaping civil war in his home country of Liberia. "Five years ago to this day, I was still in a refugee camp, and I didn't know where the first meal was going to come from," said Kollie. "I want to establish a family in the United States. I want them to live a better life than what I lived, because my entire youth was taken away through hardship."
Date Taken: | 06.13.2012 |
Date Posted: | 06.21.2012 07:26 |
Photo ID: | 608678 |
VIRIN: | 120613-A-4291P-001 |
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Location: | FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, AF |
Hometown: | ACCRA, GH |
Hometown: | MONROVIA, LR |
Hometown: | FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
Hometown: | FORT LIBERTY, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
Hometown: | HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND, US |
Hometown: | NEW YORK, NEW YORK, US |
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