Friday, March 6, 2009

Welcome Home!


03/03/2009 - U.S. Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division return to Campbell Army Airfield on Fort Campbell, Ky., March 3, 2009, after completing a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan. (DoD photo by Sam Shore, U.S. Army/Released)

My most favourite kind of pictures! WELCOME HOME!!!

And there is MORE!!!!~

Turns out another unit just made it home.

201st Engineer Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard returned home Thursday night from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan. (That's from my friend Janet!!)

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The Kentucky National Guard hosts a welcome home ceremony for more than 400 troops from the 201st Engineer Battalion on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Boyd County Middle School.


Derek Sizemore receives a kiss from Stephanie Dewitt as the Kentucky National Guard hosts a welcome home ceremony for more than 400 troops from the 201st Engineer Battalion on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Boyd County Middle School.

March 05, 2009 @ 10:58 PM MARK WEBB
Herald-Dispatch.com

MARK WEBB Herald-Dispatch.com

There is an awesome write-up on this at the Herald Dispatch here.

Ky. National Guard back home

March 05, 2009 @ 10:35 PM

ASHLAND, Ky. -- The $1,500 phone bills at Dawn Easterling's home will be over now that her husband is home from Afghanistan.

Easterling, a dispatcher for the Lawrence County Ohio Sheriff's Department, talked with her husband, Todd, a sheriff's deputy every day, sometimes two or three times. Todd and 420 other members of the 201st Engineer Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard returned home Thursday night from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.

They were met by hundreds of family members and friends along with Gov. Steve Beshear at Boyd County Middle School Thursday evening.

"It's been a long year," Dawn Easterling said. "I'm so glad it's over. He called me every day. ..
Read the rest here.

It doesn't get any better than this!

WELCOME HOME!!


H/T to Janet for this part of the post...:)



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay! Congrats to these wonderful soldiers.

Queen of my Kingdom said...

My son was among those who arrived on March 3. I am so very happy!!

The Brat said...

I am really happy for you AND them. Please thank him from this Canadian for his service. :)

Anonymous said...

Welcome Home! Many prayers have been said and answered for your safe return home!

It's people like you who make this country great!

A Soldiers' Angel

WV Angel said...

I was honored, as a PGR, to be at the KY 201st Engineering Battalion's send off last year, but unable to be at this fantastic Welcome Home.

Job well done! Many thanks to each and every one of you.

A PGR and A Soldiers' Angel

K-Dubyah said...

Welcome home from a very grateful fellow Kentuckian.


Brat,
Thanks so much for posting this, Me, of all people to miss this. Sad. it is.