Angela Parrish has known her husband since high school and the couple married in 2010. But Wednesday afternoon, moments before he returned from a 10-month combat deployment, nervous feelings fluttered inside her.
“I feel almost like a newlywed again,” she said.
Parrish was one of nearly 100 family and friends of soldiers with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 230th Sustainment Brigade. Forty of the Chattanooga-based unit’s soldiers returned home after a tour in Kuwait.
A total of 309 soldiers with the brigade left Tennessee last January and later flew to Kuwait. On Wednesday, all but about 40 returned to stations here and in Knoxville, Millington and Smyrna, Tenn.
The remaining soldiers are finishing post-deployment processing at Camp Shelby, Miss., and will return home in the coming weeks, officials said.