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Sunday, November 15, 2026Nov 15

More local soldiers with the 278th coming home

After a six-month tour in Iraq, more local soldiers are heading home today and Monday.

Soldiers with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment will arrive in Smyrna, Tenn., beginning today. The 130-soldier Dunlap unit will arrive at the site at 1:30 p.m., according to the Tennessee Army National Guard.

Forty-five soldiers out of Winchester are scheduled to arrive at 7:30 a.m. Monday.

Two hundred soldiers from Cookeville and Lebanon will also return in the same time frame.

Chattanooga-area soldiers returned home in early July as part of the 3,400-soldier unit that saw its yearlong deployment to Iraq cut in half.