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    Legal counseling, Zumba, English classes: Afghans adjust to temporary life on US military bases

    by Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times Dec 09, 2021 5 minutes

    JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — A new father stopped Col. Soleiman Rahel as he walked through the old soldiers’ barracks, now dormitories for thousands of people evacuated after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    “I want you to know I named my son after you,” the man told him.

    The gesture stands out for Rahel as a symbol of the significance of his work assisting the largest U.S. resettlement effort in half a century. For Rahel, it’s personal — 35 years ago, he too arrived from Afghanistan as a refugee.

    When the Taliban stormed Kabul in August, Rahel temporarily left his wife and home in Sacramento and moved across the country to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

    Afghans there know him as “the governor” of their new village.

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