FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) Sunday morning, 227 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) soldiers stepped off the plane after their nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. The troops are part of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB).
It was the largest flight carrying Screaming Eagle soldiers to return in the last few weeks and it saw the return of the Task Force Destiny Brigade with the uncasing of the colors, which signifies the completion of their mission and their return to Fort Campbell.
“It’s great to be home, I’ve missed my family and everybody else and we’re just happy to be back home,” Captain Tammy Price said. Her husband, Sgt Brian Price, was also excited about his wife’s return.
“I’m so happy to have her home I can’t even describe the feeling,” he said.
Specialist Jerrica Santana was also home again and it was special because it was her birthday.
“It feels like the best gift I could ask for, I’m super excited, even through the delays everybody was able to get home safe and that’s all that matters. We came back with everyone and we’re home,” Santana said.
While on deployment the 101st CAB provided aviation support to U.S. coalition and Afghan forces, exceeding 50,000 flight hours, transporting over that seven million pounds of cargo, 91,000 passengers and conducting 1,700 security missions.
