Bella Preister, of Omaha, hugs her father, Maj. Jeremy Preister, as he steps off a bus to a welcoming ceremony on Thursday in Nebraska. About 90 National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in iraq
In Nam we had the ever innocent Russian Trawlers behind us. you could see em out there with film camera's running. whenever carriers launched missions they radioed ahead to let the gookers know we were coming. also played Russian roulette. they ran up in front of us then cut 90 degrees in front forcing emergency break away's