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SERGEANT LAITH STUDENT PILOT
RIDA AL-MASAEED HAZEM HARAZNEH
GROUND DEFENSE KING HUSSEIN AIR COLLEGE
BATTALION- EMERGENCY PLATOON
KING HUSSEIN AIR BASE- MAFRAQ
BECOMING A BETTER MAN STANDING OUT DIFFERENT
Sergeant Masaeed has a baby daughter he named The challenging environment at the King Hussein
Tulin. He says the name means "moonlight", Air College as a student pilot is not different
something he sees on many nights when he for a young man who comes from a family of a
stands guard to protect King Hussein Air College, military background, where almost every adult
reminding him of her beautiful face. male has served the country in the military.
Laith holds a university degree in public However, the young man wanted to be different
administration and, he said, wanted to pursue and go for the ultimate challenge: to become a
his higher education before he had a change of fighter pilot and rise up to his own expectations
heart and decided to join RJAF, well aware that of himself. He, and all his classmates at the
the experience would not be easy. He is a better college, has passed the threshold into glory,
man now. having been picked from hundreds of applicants
to join the college, where they will graduate with
"I have learnt patience and developed an ability a university degree in aviation.
to overcome difficulties. That is what military life
has taught me: Nothing is impossible".
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