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Homecoming approaches 2,700 soldiers soon to return from Bosnia
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Spouses are planning homecoming posters. Cut-rate car deals for
soldiers have hit the airwaves. And civic leaders and Army commanders
are brainstorming a welcome for the 2,700 Fort Carson soldiers
serving in Bosnia.
They are scheduled to begin returning in mid-September and will
all be back by mid-October, ending the largest deployment from
Colorado Springs since the Vietnam War era.
Spouses who have lived without the soldiers for six months are
readying themselves and their children for the reunion and an
inevitable shake-up in home life.
Commanders are preparing the returning soldiers ...
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PREPARING WELCOME FOR NEW TROOPS FORT CARSON AWAITS INFLUX OF SOLDIERS, FAMILIES TUESDAY.(News)
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