Soldiers Come Home, Midlands Style

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — After serving on attack and reconnaissance missions in Iraq and Kuwait for seven months, more than 400 soldiers from the South Carolina Army National Guard’s 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion returned home to adoring loved ones. There were enough patriotic fashions, welcome-home banners, feel-good spirits, hugs and kisses to last a lifetime Friday morning at Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Hundreds of military family and friends showed their Army Guard support for the troops who spent nearly a year in Iraq and Kuwait. The 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion flies the AH-64D Apache Longbow Helicopter. The company participated in Operation New Dawn in Iraq, where they flew hundreds of hours performing reconnaissance missions for units moving in and out of Iraq, including an attack mission as US troops crossed the border from Iraq to Kuwait. But no matter how grand the assignment thousands of miles away, soldiers tell ABC Columbia News that there’s truly no place like home sweet home.