Tech. Sgt. Chamara Cantrell, noncommissioned officer in charge of the Schriever Dental Clinic for the 21st Medical Group, grew up with her parents’ determination that she would not become a “statistic.”
The East Coast city she was raised in was famous for its statistics and Sergeant Cantrell knew them all: No. 1 in the nation for teenage pregnancy ages 15 to 19; more than half of the teen boys would be arrested for drug-related crimes; and in one Baltimore neighborhood, 100 percent of the calls to emergency services were about domestic violence.
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