Same Team, Different Uniform: The Story of an Iraqi Translator Who Became an American Airman
October 04, 2019
October 04, 2019
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:
In 2003, Airman 1st Class Saeed Shnawa was not Airman 1st Class Saeed Shnawa. He was a 21-year-old Iraqi student of technology at a university in Baghdad.
That's when American and coalition forces arrived to overthrow the Iraqi government, turning Baghdad into a war zone. Like many young men and women in Baghdad, Shnawa fled the city, bound for western Iraq, where his parents lived at . . .
In 2003, Airman 1st Class Saeed Shnawa was not Airman 1st Class Saeed Shnawa. He was a 21-year-old Iraqi student of technology at a university in Baghdad.
That's when American and coalition forces arrived to overthrow the Iraqi government, turning Baghdad into a war zone. Like many young men and women in Baghdad, Shnawa fled the city, bound for western Iraq, where his parents lived at . . .