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Teaching leadership in a foreign land was never part of his career plan, but that's exactly what Capt. Tom Fiordelisi has been doing for the last 12 months at a forward operating base near Baghdad.

Captain Fiordelisi served as commandant of cadets for ROTC Det. 630 at Kent State University in Ohio before deploying to Iraq where he taught leadership to college sophomores.

While in Iraq, the captain taught English, airpower, followership and leadership to Iraqi air force cadets at the Iraqi military academy. The native of Seymour, Conn., discovered that young Iraqi students are not much different from their American counterparts.
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