Stewart brigade returns from 3rd tour in Iraq

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Staff Sgt. Cristobal Otlang, center, crosses Warriors Walk with his 4-year-old daughter Layla, right, his 7-year-old daughter Sierra to his right and his neighbor Phillip Pinkston, left, who helped carry Otlang's gear following a Fort Stewart homecoming ceremony March 26. Otlang was among the first flight of soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division to return home from a 15-month deployment to Iraq.


Stewart brigade returns from 3rd tour in Iraq
By Russ Bynum - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Mar 27, 2008 6:17:27 EDT

FORT STEWART, Ga. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Brown’s third deployment to Iraq was, at well over a year, also his longest — he was 39 when he left, and had his 41st birthday the day before he returned to Fort Stewart on Wednesday.

His family, wife Taura Brown and 4-year-old son Jacob, had a cake waiting for him at home that said “Happy Birthday and Welcome Home.”

“The only thing I want to do is just go home and be around nobody but them,” said Brown of Chatham, La., as he pulled off his helmet and flashed a wide smile at his wife and child.

Brown was among 500 soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade returning Wednesday from a 15-month deployment to Iraq. Hundreds of wives, children, mothers and fathers let loose with cheers and tears as the first group marched onto the Fort Stewart parade grounds Wednesday afternoon.

The rest of the brigade of 4,000 troops, which deployed in January 2007, will return in the next two weeks.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/ap_3id_homecoming_032608/

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1. We have no National Guard at home to protect our borders,

during a disaster, or to protect our government from abuse within. It is bad defense policy.

President Bush says we're winning (he's winning financially and politically) and civilization is at stake. If that is true why aren't his daughters, etc. in the Iraq?

Do you think that was deliberate to destroy our military? I do.

Impeach Bush and Cheney for treason.