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ByJohnRogers TheAssociatedPress LOS ANGELES After three military combat tours in war-torn Iraq, Chase Mill- sap returned home to get on with a civilian life. But there was one thing he couldn't do: leave a com- rade behind, certainly not one who had saved his life. Especially not the for- mer Iraqi military officer who had worked with the Americans and was now living a precarious exis- tence as a refugee dodg- ing Islamic State militants seeking to kill him. For the past two years, Millsap has been fighting a different kind of battle, one to gain asylum for the brother in arms he simply calls The Captain. "The Captain is the epit- ome of my personal com- mitment to take care of people," said Millsap, 33, who served in the Marine Corps and later joined the Army and became a Green Beret. For the time being, The Captain lives in south- ern Turkey, struggling to obtain refugee status in what he hopes will be the first step toward seeking permanent asylum in the United States. "If I go back, I'm sure I die," the 37-old Muslim and married father of two said recently during an inter- view over Skype. He agreed to speak, but, fearing for his safety, only wanted to be identified by his former rank. Millsap visited his friend last year at his cramped apartment, hoping he might help him expedite his refugee application. After running into one obstacle after another — The Captain couldn't get an interview at one gov- ernment office because his papers were in Eng- lish, not Turkish — Mill- sap returned to the United States and formed the non- profit Ronin Refugee Proj- ect with a handful of other military veterans. It's dedicated to helping those who fought alongside Americans find safe harbor here or in other Western countries. After helping The Captain, they hope to turn their attention to oth- ers. "He's one of millions that's stuck in a system that is broken and he's just gonna continue to wait," Millsap said. "And so we decided to step up, me and a few other veterans." He will be in Washing- ton on Tuesday to meet with members of Congress and others to discuss just how the U.S. might go about doing that. "That's really become my mission," said the newly- wed who obtained his mas- ter's degree from the Uni- versity of Southern Califor- nia and then went to work this month as a community liaison helping U.S. veter- ans reintegrate into civil- ian life. Friendly and outgoing, Mills was a fresh-faced second lieutenant when he arrived in Iraq in 2006 to lead a contingent of U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers. The Captain, a lieutenant himself then, was among the latter group. "When I met The Cap- tain, I was unimpressed at first," Millsap said, chuck- ling now. He was a Marine, after all, he is quick to add, and no decent Marine thinks anyone can do the job bet- ter than he can. Never mind that they were in the middle of nowhere, sur- rounded by danger in a for- eign country. His attitude began to change as The Captain patiently explained why he and his troops weren't getting buy-in from the lo- cals or the Iraqi soldiers. It changed dramatically, however, after a sniper tried to take Millsap's head off during a routine patrol. "He quickly pushed me down and ran towards the gunfire and because of that, saved my life," Mill- sap recalled. The sniper, seeing an an- gry Iraqi soldier charging at him, chose to run rather than shoot again. "And that," Millsap added with a laugh, "is when I truly realized that this guy's OK." It was a coincidence that the two crossed paths a year later during Millsap's second tour. He was again in charge of a Marine con- tingent, and The Captain was now his Iraqi counter- part. Millsap left the Marines after that tour to join the Army's Green Berets, rising to the rank of captain him- self. The two didn't cross paths but kept in touch by phone and email — until one day, the communica- tions stopped. The Captain, Millsap would learn a year later, had nearly been killed when an improved explo- sive device blew up his Jeep. He recovered and sol- diered on until the Islamic State group began moving in and the death threats be- gan. RESCUING THE CAPTAIN US v et er an s ee ks a sy lu m fo r Iraqi man who saved his life CHASEMILLSAP Chase Millsap is seen with The Captain standing next to a suspected truck bomb following a successful raid in Al Anbar, Iraq. The Associated Press HIGHLAND A shuttle bus returning from a women's church retreat rolled over on a highway in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains, seriously injur- ing six people and leaving 14 others with minor inju- ries. Ambulances took the vic- tims to the hospital Sun- day and all were expected to survive, San Bernardino County fire Capt. Jeremy Kern said. The bus carrying 22 peo- ple was one of several trans- porting about 200 women from an annual mountain retreat back to their church in Downey, a church official said. Two people aboard were not hurt. "We got the news right after regular Sunday ser- vice," Robert Acosta, as- sistant to the senior pastor at Iglesia de Cristo Minis- terios Llamada Final, told the San Bernardino Sun. "It was unnerving, but we im- mediately pulled together." The 2000 El Dorado bus hit a sedan as it came down the mountain, California Highway Patrol spokesman Juan Quintero said. No one in the car was hurt, and the agency is investigating the cause of the crash. The bus turned on its side across State Route 330, blocking the highway and shutting down a 16- mile stretch near Highland for hours. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Bus leaving church retreats rolls; 6 injured By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A Cali- fornia toddler whose fam- ily waged a court battle to keep him on life support after he was declared brain dead has been transferred to a hospital outside the U.S., the family said. Attorney Kevin Snider declined to release the name of the hospital or its location, citing the privacy of 2-year-old Israel Stin- son's family. The boy's mother Jonee Fonseca said in a posting Sunday on the website go- fundme.com that the facil- ity was outside the U.S. She said a neurologist and pedi- atric specialist who exam- ined Israel at the new hos- pital determined he was not brain dead. The boy was receiv- ing nutrients and was on a treatment plan, she said in the post on the fundrais- ing site. Israel went to Kaiser Per- manente Medical Center in Roseville on April 11 after treatment at the University of California, Davis Medi- cal Center following what appeared to be an asthma attack, according to court documents. At UC Davis, he went into cardiac arrest and was later found to be brain dead. Two more evaluations at Kaiser Permanente also determined he was brain dead, Kaiser Permanente attorneys said. Fonseca had been look- ing to move the child out of Kaiser Permanente, where doctors said his condition wouldn't im- prove. She said Israel had moved his body in re- sponse to her touch and voice, and she believed he was still alive as long as his heart was beating. A federal appeals court on Friday gave Fonseca more time to find another facility for Israel, ordering Kaiser Permanente to con- tinue life support while it considered his mother's ap- peal. 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