Early Life
Soghanalian was born to an Armenian family in what is now current-day Iskanderun, Turkey. In late 1939, his family moved to Lebanon. Due to the poor economic conditions his family lived in at the time, he decided to drop out of high school and joined the French Army and served in a tank division. It was from his experience in the military that brought him into the world of weaponry and in his words, he "adapted to it from childhood and kept going."
Soghanalian later took up a job as a ski instructor in Lebanon, where he met and married his American wife.
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