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Army National Guard troops return from Afghanistan

Bailey Smith, right, embraces her husband Capt. Jared Smith as he returns from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Macon, Ga. Two hundred Guardsmen returned home Tuesday from a nine-month deployment where they provided security and facilitated the transfers of U.S. military installations to their Afghan counterparts. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Bailey Smith, right, embraces her husband Capt. Jared Smith as he returns from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Macon, Ga. Two hundred Guardsmen returned home Tuesday from a nine-month deployment where they provided security and facilitated the transfers of U.S. military installations to their Afghan counterparts. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Bailey Smith, right, embraces her husband Capt. Jared Smith as he returns from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Macon, Ga. Two hundred Guardsmen returned home Tuesday from a nine-month deployment where they provided security and facilitated the transfers of U.S. military installations to their Afghan counterparts. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

By Associated Press 1 min read

MACON, Ga. (AP) – A group of about 200 soldiers in the Georgia Army National Guard have arrived back to Georgia after spending nine months in the Middle East.

Families and friends of the guard members gathered to greet the 48th Brigade Combat Team in Macon on Tuesday.

The group served in Afghanistan and provided base operations support. Officials say the group provided security and helped transfer U.S. military installations to their Afghan counterparts.