Welcome Home, Soldiers!
Welcome Home!
After many months in Iraq, more than a year away from their families, thousands of our NC National Guard soldiers are home. It will take a few weeks to get them all back here but the planes have started arriving. Sunday chartered planes full of our soldiers landed in Savannah, Georgia. Some of the first pictures are coming in… and special thanks to SASTP unpaid employee #5, photographer extraordinaire, Brian Christiansen.
Touchdown!
A Chartered plane carrying NC National Guard soldiers arrives in Savannah, Georgia
The first stop: Soldiers will spend several days in Savannah, Georgia’s Ft. Stewart until they are reunited with their families.
Hard to hide this smile!
Welcome Home Chaplain Tommy Watson!
Chaplain Tommy Watson (left) and Specialist Timothy Gilbert return home.
A sight that will bring tears to our eyes every time: a stream of courageous men and women returning home after sacrificing so much for our country.
Chaplain Tommy Watson
NC National Guard Soldiers on U.S. soil again...
USO Volunteer Angela Hines, arms outstretched, hugs our soldiers home!
USO Volunteer Angela Hines welcomes home a hero
And they just keep coming! What an incredible sight. Soldiers home from war.
This is the line between terror and security
Mike and Brian,
Thank you so much for taking these pictures and posting them! It helps us back home capture a little excitement from our soldiers touching US soil for the first time in a long time. It also helps make it real! They really are on US soil! Hooah!
Jackie Watson
(Chaplain Thomas Watson’s wife)
thank you Brian for taking amazing pictures once more. You came thru for us all once more. I have pictures of the plane that brought the love of my life home, well GA,USA!!! can not wait til he is back home for good.
Anna and Mike you have stepped in with us on this journey and I am so blessed to have you in our lifes. Hugs and love to you all.
Remember to pray for the families that are reunited with each other and also keep the families and soldiers who are still away from one another.
Welcome Home, NC National Guard! Beautiful photos, Brian! Thank you, Mike and Anna.
Welcome home NC National Guard, and thank you for a job well done!
Thank you for these amazing pictures…Welcome back home to all…
Thank you to our troops and to SASTP for letting us know. I hope when they get back to NC we can have a large gathering to welcome them home.
Welcome Home NC National Guard and to Devon Glass!!!
Thank you to our troops for a gob well done!
Thank you so much to all our soldiers!!! Just waiting for the rest to come home at the end of the month. That is when my man comes in.God Bless ALL THE SOLDIERS and THEIR FAMILIES….When a soldier goes to war the families are right there with them. God Bless All!!! Enjoy your reunion with your loved ones….Hooah!!!
**What a Beautiful Sight!!!! I am so very proud of all of our soldiers!! And, I CANNOT WAIT until my husband, Spc Brooks Bass,(BRAVO) lands in GA on one of those planes!!!! Not too much longer now!! **
~~~~~~WELCOME HOME SOLDIERS!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!~~~~~~
In Christ,
Summer F. Bass
we need to do another gratitude wave for soldiers that are still in Iraq and Afghanistan and all over the world to let them know we are thinking of them. I know several that are deployed right now.