Slobodan Janicijevic retired as a colonel from the Serbian Air Force and was excited fro his son’s military career. (Family photo) 
Spc. Nemanja “Yani” Janicijevic, 25, an immigrant soldier who died last week while waiting 11 months for the military to clear him for duty, had been naturalized months before and was a U.S. citizen, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services told Military Times Friday. (Family photo) 
Kathleen Jacob (left) and Joseph Jacob (far right) served as the legal guardians for Spc. Nemanja “Yani” Janicijevic, 25 when he first came to the U.S. to play basketball in Maryland as a high school freshman. He stayed with them all through high school and early college, and as he remained stuck at Fort Lee in Virginia, they would come visit him. (Family photo) 
Slobodan Janicijevic and his son, Nemanja “Yani” Janicijevic, when Yani was a high school sophomore in Maryland. (Family photo)
