Marine vet & the interpreter who saved his life discuss CBS show ‘United States of Al’
Howard Altman
For Ty Edwards and Hakimi Quadratullah, the premise behind the new CBS series about a Marine veteran and the Afghan interpreter who becomes his roommate after saving his life isn’t exactly farfetched.
“Marine veteran Riley (Parker Young), home at last after serving in Afghanistan, is happily reunited with his friend Awalmir (Adhir Kaylan), who goes by Al, the interpreter with his unit, after a long struggle to get him a visa to travel to the United States from Afghanistan,†the CBS show’s description synopsis reads.
In many ways, the sitcom, created by Chuck Lorre, David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari, mirrors the two men’s real lives.
Edwards, 51, is a combat-wounded Marine veteran whose life was saved by Hakimi, 33, during a fierce battle in Afghanistan’s Kunar province in 2008. After a five-year bureaucratic struggle to get Hakimi a visa, the interpreter finally made it to America, and for a short period in 2013, lived with Edwards and his family in Tampa Palms, Florida.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/04/07/this-real-life-marine-and-interpreter-who-saved-his-life-give-thumbs-up-to-united-states-of-al/
