Welcome home: JBLM aviation brigade starts to return from Afghanistan

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The 16th Combat Aviation Brigade comes homeA welcome home ceremony for the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade in a hangar at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, September 24, 2014

Welcome home: JBLM aviation brigade starts to return from Afghanistan
By Adam Ashton
Staff writer
September 24, 2014 Updated 12 hours ago

Soldiers from what is expected to be the last Joint Base Lewis-McChord combat brigade to deploy to Afghanistan in large numbers are starting to come home.

Troops from the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade began arriving at JBLM over the weekend. About 100 more returned Wednesday morning.

One of them was Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Frye, 35, of Spanaway, a veteran of four deployments to war zones. He’s looking forward to spending time with his wife and four kids, though they don’t have any plans yet.

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It was April when about 1,200 local soldiers from the aviation brigade hit the ground in Afghanistan for what was scheduled to be a nine-month assignment. Some of them got word last month that they’d come home early, while others likely will be in Afghanistan for the full time.


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Welcome home, Ladies and Gentlemen.