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If Richard Carmona Were a Student Today, Would Pima College Accept Him? (video)

If Richard Carmona Were a Student Today, Would Pima College Accept Him? (video)

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Pamela Powers
May 05, 2012
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If Richard Carmona Were a Student Today, Would Pima College Accept Him? (video)
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US Senate Candidate and former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona makes no bones about his life on the streets of Harlem as the son of Puerto Rican immigrants.

A self-described "street kid" who dropped out of high school, Carmona entered the Marines at 17 during the Vietnam War and got a GED so he could join the Special Forces. At the urging of his mili…

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