Mr. Speaker. I rise today to salute a great military leader. U.S. Army Col. Vladimir Soblchevsky. The colonel retires from the U.S. Army this month after serving for the last 3 years as the commandant of the Defense Language Institute located in my district. A native of Russia. Sobichevsky fled the former Soviet Union with his mother in 1943. Settling in Germany. the two emigrated to the United States from a displaced persons camp In 1949. He enlisted in the U.S. Army just 7 years later. joining the first Special Forces group. At the time. Sobichevsky said he was motivated to become a soldier because you could earn U.S. citizenship by serving in the Armed Forces for 5 years.
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