welcome home to the 1109th AVCRAD !!!

National Guard troops return from Iraq
By News Channel 8's Kent Pierce
Groton (WTNH)_ A plane landed in Connecticut today carrying the answers to the prayers of more than a dozen families.
"You're very nervous when somebody goes off to Iraq and scared to death and you pray a lot to bring them back safely," said Sylvia Morgan, grandmother of soldier.
Fifteen members of the 1109th AVCRAD spent the past year fixing helicopters in Iraq and Kuwait. Meanwhile their families have been riding an emotional roller coaster.
"Sadness. Happiness when our son was born, and we miss him horribly," said Kate Morgan, wife of soldier.........

welcome home!

to members of the 643rd military police company! i saw y'all out there yesterday morning (well i saw some national guard members directing traffic). i happened to pass by and i gave y'all the silent nod

thanks for serving

National Guard Unit Welcomed Home
Soldiers Who Were Stationed In Germany Recognized For Serving In War On Terror

By REGINE LABOSSIERE
Courant Staff Writer
Sgt. Zena Campbell was looking for excitement five years ago, when she enlisted in the Connecticut National Guard.Excitement is what she got in the past two years as she trained to become a military police officer and then was deployed to Germany.Campbell, 23, of Waterbury, and about 130 other members of the 643rd Military Police Company had two extensions to their deployment as they patrolled several German towns and tracked down suspected terrorists before returning home in July.The unit of the state National Guard was honored Sunday in a welcome ceremony that Campbell and about 50 others in her unit attended at the State Armory in Hartford. They received the national defense medal, the global war on terrorism service medal and the armed forces reserve medal with "M" device...........

the last of the 102nd are home

and i welcome you and i thank you (we all do)

National Guard members return to Connecticut

(Windsor Locks-WTNH)_It was a third and final homecoming today for the New Haven based 102nd Infantry Battalion. Fifty unit members arrived at Bradley International Airport this afternoon to the loving arms of wives, husbands, children and parents.
After a year in Afghanistan and almost a year and a half away from home, the members of the 102nd were recognized while they were in Afghanistan for holding off Taliban forces, so that Afghan security forces could arrive. During their stay, they participated in search and seizure operations, working with the Afghan security forces and the Afghan National Army. They spent the past month taking warrior leader courses at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, but today it was all about just being with family.
Jessica Koeler of Meriden said her husband has been away since January of last year. .............