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our troops saw the flight line for the

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first time in two months . They were

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home after a deployment to the pacific

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ocean . Friends and family held their

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cameras up anxiously awaiting to greet

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their loved ones . More than 140 airmen

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walked down the ramp . The first person

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they see command she found holding a

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fist bump for every crew member a bus

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carries the airmen to the packs

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terminal where they're safely screened

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for covid symptoms and then filled out

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medical questionnaires , their wives ,

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husbands , grandparents and Children

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all waiting in the background . Then

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finally the moment they've been waiting

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on for 75 days this year .

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Okay . Yeah , Yes .

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Two men ,

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Yeah ,

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yeah .

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Ashley Sadler's the wife of Aviation

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Management Master Sergeant Charles

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Sadler . It feels really good having

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him home . Um when he's gone home of

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course a piece of the family is gone .

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But when he's home is that comfort

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Actually knows the feeling these

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families went through all too well .

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Today she was able to watch these kids

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and knew exactly how they felt . It's

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awesome . Especially the one that has

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little Children that run to see their

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parents is awesome . I remember when

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ours was small enough to do it , but

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they wanted to go to school today .

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Second Lieutenant Madeleine Puckett ,

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1/17 Air refueling . When intel officer

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says our members went above and beyond

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the mission , completing 50 sorties ,

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Passing £2 million pounds of fuel to

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receivers . And of course that doesn't

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happen without all the back shop .

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People like maintenance and everybody

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who works in opposites , not just the

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flyers that do that . So they can't fly

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without everybody else . So it was

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really a team effort and I don't know

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if you know how much £2 million of

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fuel is , but that's a lot . And it was

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definitely hot out here today in this

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august heat , but it wasn't gonna stop

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these families from coming together

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reporting from the centre smith joined

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Air National Guard Base in Birmingham

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Alabama . I'm staff sergeant Wes jones

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saying up here .

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There it is . Mhm .

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Yeah .

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Wanted . Yeah . No .

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Yeah .