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Home, Sweet Home!
Welcome home, Troops!

Numerous family members, friends and well-wishers turned out Wednesday, Nov. 22 in Swainsboro to welcome Company "A," 878th Combat Engineering Battalion, Georgia National Guard home from Iraq. There were plenty of hugs to go around as wives, husbands, children, siblings, parents and friends welcomed home their loved ones. The troops arrived home just in time for Thanksgiving. Aspecial ceremony was held to welcome the troops home. Speaking at the event were Swainsboro Mayor Charles Schwabe, Lt. Gen. David B. Poythress and LTC Rowell A. Stanley Jr. Also speaking was Cpt. Calvin F. Oxendine III, commander of the 878th Battalion.
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