Pals stay together from basic training to first assignment

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Airmen Taija Alcantara, left, and Tiamie Cruz, surgical technicians in Germany, grew up 10 minutes apart in Guam and have been inseparable since sixth grade. They are now assigned to the same job at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.


Pals stay together from basic training to first assignment
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 24, 2008

LANDSTUHL, Germany — They finish each other’s sentences.

They’ve known each other since the sixth grade.

They call each other “sister” even though they’re not related.

Even the military can’t separate them.

And now for their first assignment in the Air Force, Airman Taija Alcantara and Airman Tiamae Cruz work the same job on the same post — thousands of miles from Guam, the Pacific Ocean island they call home.


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