Ralph "AK" Angkiangco enlisted in the Navy in April 2008 one year after graduating high school. He was an 18-year-old kid uncertain about what he
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While vaccination numbers increased in San Diego County in May 2021, COVID-19 cases took a dip. The Pfizer vaccine became available to kids between the ages of 12-15, giving another boost to vaccination figures. Each day, we got closer to the county s wider reopening (we see you, June 15). Here s a day-by-day look back at what happened in San Diego County this month as the pandemic continued.
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Ralph AK Angkiangco spent just under a decade in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman. He deployed to Afghanistan twice and served alongside the Marines.
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Ralph “AK” Angkiangco enlisted in the Navy in April 2008 one year after graduating high school. He was an 18-year-old kid uncertain about what he wanted in life, apart from fleeing his parent’s place in San Diego. He had initially considered joining the Marine Corps, but with America’s Global War on Terror in full swing, his father persuaded him to become a hospital corpsman in the Navy instead.
In Afghanistan, Ralph "AK" Angkiangco was a medic with a Marine platoon that suffered terrible casualties. For years, the holiday was a time to drink and forget, not remember. This year is different.