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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia-
When The U.S. and Royal Cambodian
Navies began their 2nd annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training
(CARAT) Cambodia exercise Oct. 20, three Sailors assigned to the guided
missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) were looking forward to the week ahead
more than others. For them, it would be their first visit to their ancestral
homeland.
Gas Turbine Systems Technician 3rd Class Channy
Sath, Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Suorth Suom, and Storekeeper 2nd Class
Sokchamroeun Yous were all born in, or grew up in, the U.S. after their
parents fled the genocide of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975-1979,
and the nearly two decades of civil war that followed. Sath grew up in
Lowell, Mass; Suom in Philadelphia, and Yous in Texas. All three eventually
joined the Navy and, in a twist of good fortune, were able to visit their
homeland when Kidd was selected to participate in CARAT Cambodia. “This is my first time to visit Cambodia,” Suom said, explaining how his family slipped across the border with Thailand in 1979 to escape the war. “My family, they miss the country and their way of life before the war.”
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