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Although on the DoD Medical form it was marked that I had “asthma”, that was completly accidental for I have no such sickness. What had happened was, when I was 6 years old back in Africa, I got severly ill, due to a flue I caught, and as the conditions worsen, it came to that I started breathing heavily. At first assumption, my parents thought it was “asthma”, but when we went to the hospital, my parents were cleared on the conditions, and it turned out that it was simply a really severe cold. Unfortunatly, my parents never told me about what the doctors had said, then again I was just a child. So as I grew older what I heard my parents say was what I believed. So when I filled the DoD Medical application, I marked that I had “asthma”. But

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