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“Hands go, hands come”: An Airman’s journey from Ghana to graduation

| Staff Reporters
Hurlburt Field – “There were bushfires and famine; people were dying of hunger—it was horrible.”

Growing up in Ghana, Staff Sgt. Barfi’s younger years were marked by conflict and adversity, but it was not the challenges that defined him rather, it was the kindness of strangers that shaped the course of his life.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Isaac Barfi, 1st Special Operations Wing unit training manager, middle, poses with Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Gunnell, 492 SOW command chief, left, and Chief Master Sgt. Ralph Oliver, 1 SOW command chief, at a Community College of the Air Force graduation ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Dec. 4, 2024. The CCAF is a federally-chartered institution that grants two-year Associate of Applied Science degrees exclusively to enlisted service members. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Tori Haudenschild)

 

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