DATE: November 13, 2009 2:30:04 PM EST
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Date: Nov. 13, 2009
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 Coast Guardsman becomes U.S. citizen aboard USS Intrepid

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NEW YORK - In these photos by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Fireman Olalekan Oyeyemi, a native of Nigeria, receives his certificate of naturalization and officially becomes a citizen of the United States during a ceremony aboard the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Friday, Nov. 13, 2009.

"The experience is absolutely phenomenal," said Oyeyemi. "I now feel like I fit in, and after going to school and serving in the U.S. military, I feel like this is a reward."

The process to become a citizen took more than a year, he said.

Oyeyemi currently serves onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, homeported in Kittery, Maine.

(U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Barbara L. Patton)

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