Troops Arrive at Fort Campbell From Iraq

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/fort_campbell_return

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Families of 101st Airborne Division soldiers waved American flags and yelled "thank you" as the division's first planeload of troops from Iraq (news - web sites) stepped off the plane Wednesday after nearly a year at war.

Some 200 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's "Screaming Eagles" said they were happy to be on American soil after a little less than a year in Iraq.

The soldiers are from the Fort Campbell-based division's advance team. They are among the 600 soldiers arriving this week whose task is to prepare for the rest of the division's 20,000 soldiers returning from Iraq in upcoming days.

The 101st is part of the first wave of troops to return home in the first half of the year after completing one-year tours.

It is expected to take until April to get all the soldiers of the 101st and their equipment home to Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee line 50 miles north of Nashville.

Fifty-nine soldiers from Fort Campbell have been killed in the war — 57 of them from the 101st. The post has had more deaths in Iraq than any other military unit.

[Mari333]

1. and so it goes

my stepson left for Iraq yesterday..the deaths continue, the carnage continues, and the US public goes about their merry ways.
Damn this war and Goddamn GW Bush.

[M155Y_A1CH]

2. Have faith

My nephew is one of the troops stepping off that plane. His enlistment is supposed to be up but with the announcement of the 90 day extensions, I guess it will be a few more months stateside.

[underpants]

3. Good that he is home

or at least back in the States.