Overcoming adversity leads to promising Air Force future

Determination is a word often associated with the military. In the case of one young Airman, his determination led him to the Air Force to find the stability and family he was looking for.

Airman 1st Class Vito Amalfitano, currently a storage management technician, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., lived in Florida and Indiana, but doesn't refer to any of them as home.

"Growing up, it was not a happy life," he said, explaining some of the challenges he faced.

While living in Florida, his parents were using drugs, and then one of his younger brothers drowned. Two years later, his mother passed away and his father's decline got worse.
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