82nd Airborne Division Museum
82nd Airborne Division Museum

A Hero’s Welcome: The Anticipation

Family members of redeploying paratroopers assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division wait patiently for their loved ones to march into Green Ramp at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 11, 2015. The paratroopers returned from a nine-month deployment to Iraq in support of Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt David Blocker)


A Hero’s Welcome Where the mission ends… and home begins.

THE ANTICIPATION This is the longest moment. Eyes scan the crowd. Hands tighten. Breath is held. Some reunions are loud. Some are silent. But every heart is racing toward the same thing at home.


82nd Airborne Division Museum

Tuesday – Saturday: 1000 – 1630
Closed: Monday and Sunday
Open on the following Federal Holidays: MLK Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day and Veterans’ Day. Closed all other Federal Holidays.
910-436-1735

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