Navy Reserve Chaplain Aroon Seeda spends time with his parents at his childhood home near Sattahip, Thailand on Feb. 14 while participating in exercise Cobra Gold 2017. Chaplain Seeda was raised as a Buddhist monk and immigrated to the United States in 2001 before joining the Navy Reserve in 2008 where he is currently the only Buddhist chaplain in the Department of the Navy. His first encounter with an American was in 1988 when he met Marines participating in Cobra Gold.

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