Sioux City, Iowa (RI) — More Iowa National Guard soldiers returned home from a deployment in the Middle East Thursday.
Around 100 soldiers from the Second Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division got a rousing welcome home in Sioux City.
Sergeant Ben Morehead of Sioux City had several people on hand to welcome him back.
Morehead was deployed as a combat medic in Syria with the First Squadron 113th Cavalry Regiment, which lost two members in an ISIS attack.
Morehead’s wife Amie says she was anxious at first while he was deployed. It was his second deployment, but the first in the 2.5 years they’ve been married.
Major Dexter Melhaf is the squadron officer in charge, and he says the support from Iowa and the families back home helped everyone in the unit.
Other welcome home ceremonies were held in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
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