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!!)
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.
Herald-Dispatch.com
There is an awesome write-up on this at the Herald Dispatch here.
Ky. National Guard back home
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. ..
It doesn't get any better than this!
WELCOME HOME!!
H/T to Janet for this part of the post...:)
6 comments:
Yay! Congrats to these wonderful soldiers.
My son was among those who arrived on March 3. I am so very happy!!
I am really happy for you AND them. Please thank him from this Canadian for his service. :)
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
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
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.
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