Story by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill | Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island | 06.13.2013
As civil war ravaged his home, family and country, one Parris Island recruit escaped it all to begin a new life in America and later help the children left behind who were not so fortunate....
Hometown: Freetown
Photo by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill | Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island | 06.13.2013
Pfc. Arryor Olu Jones, a 22-year-old native of Goderich, Freetown, Sierra Leone, graduates from Marine Corps recruit training with Platoon 1046, Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, on June 14, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C. Olu Jones came to the United States to escape civil war in Sierra Leone when he was 12 years old, attended high school in Somerset, N.J., and worked for several......
Hometown: Freetown
