Nicole Mailhot, left, hugs Staff Sgt. Todd Perkins after he and the 1035th Survey and Design Team returned from a deployment in Afghanistan on Friday at the Augusta Armory.
Staff Sgt. Todd Perkins kisses Nicole Mailhot, after he and the 1035th Survey and Design Team returned from a deployment in Afghanistan on Friday at the Augusta Armory.
Sgt. Casy Nash, center, hugs his daughter Althea Nash, 2, top, and brother Kyle Nash, 10, on Friday at the Augusta Armory. He had a large group of his family from Eddington there to greet him when he and the 1035th Survey and Design Team returned from Afghanistan.
An American flag flies between Winthrop and Augusta fire department ladder trucks as people wait for the bus carrying returning soldiers on Friday at the Augusta Armory.
A sign in front of the Augusta Armory welcomes the soldiers home on Friday.
Sgt. Casy Nash, left, hugs his daughter Althea Nash on Friday at the Augusta Armory.
Spec. Dan Tuttle, center, is greeted by wife April Sweetser, behind him, and their son Gabriel, left, after he and the 1035th Survey and Design Team returned from a deployment in Afghanistan on Friday at the Augusta Armory.
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