Friday, September 4, 2009

Atryker Brigade Arriving Home

After nine months in Iraq, Pennsylvania Guard soldiers are now reuniting with their families in Pennsylvania.
With dramatic music playing in the background, two busloads of soldiers marched into a room at Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County, while their families waved and cheered.
They'd completed a tour of duty in Iraq, and are now backed with their loved ones.
Once the members of the 56th Strkyer Brigade were dismissed, Lieutenant Douglas Belfiure of Glassport, Allegheny County, was swarmed by his three children, wife, mother and father.

"Three kids makes it hard, but my wife did a wonderful job taking care of them, and (I'm) just glad to be home with them."

Belfiure's mother, Pauline, says the family will spend the next few days catching up.

"We're going to troop around, and then we're going to spend the weekend in Gettysburg and Lancaster."

Soldiers will keep trickling back home for another few weeks. Guard officials say they'll all be back by the middle of the month.

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