Home sweet home.
A charter plane carrying 62 North Dakota soldiers from the 188th Air Defense Artillery is scheduled to touch down about 2 p.m. today at the Grand Forks International Airport. The soldiers will be back home after spending a year on security duty in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, 29 other members of the unit, left behind to hand off the mission, have returned to the United States and should be back in North Dakota next week.
Guard spokesman Rob Keller said the 29 soldiers arrived Wednesday in Fort Lewis, Wash. They will spend up to a week going through processing before returning to North Dakota.
The rest of the unit, 62 from the Grand Forks area and 47 from Bismarck, arrived earlier and are flying from Fort Lewis to Bismarck and Grand Forks today.
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The chartered aircraft will land in Bismarck at about 12:20 p.m. and in Grand Forks about 2 p.m., according to the National Guard.
One other unit remains deployed to Afghanistan: The 188th ADA-Rapid Aerostat Initial ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Deployment or RAID, deployed in January.
