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AGADIR, MOROCCO – Walking from the Moroccan Royal Army Airstrip into the processing center sits a member of the California Army Reserve 312 HR Company, 1st Lt. Affoue Kouakou, serving as support in African Lion 2022.
Kouakou, who is a French speaking immigrant from Ivory Coast, Africa, went to college in the United States through a student visa. “I ended up in San Diego, California. I decided to go to community college and was looking for ways to pay for the rest of my college time.”
Kouakou found the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program in the search. MAVNI was started to recruit legal aliens that are considered vital to national interest and give them citizenship to the United States. Kouakou continued, “It was not easy and it was also long but thankfully everything went well and I was able to enlist.”
Kouakou went on to complete Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training before finishing her degree through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which led her to being an officer in the Army Reserves. Where she worked with a unit who went to African Lion 2022 in Morocco.
Kouakou stated, “What got me interested in African Lion is definitely because the exercise is happening in my home continent and so that got me excited especially since that it involves different countries from all over Africa and specifically I saw the opportunity to be part of a great exercise and be the assets not only for my unit but an exercise as a whole.”
| Date Taken: | 06.26.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 07.12.2022 11:41 |
| Story ID: | 424104 |
| Location: | AGADIR, MA |
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