A California Guardsman with the 40th Infantry Division steps out of line to share one final kiss before boarding a plane Sept. 18 at the Joint Force Training Base airfield in Los Alamitos, California. Nearly 100 Division Headquarters staff were traveling to Fort Hood before heading to Afghanistan for their first combat deployment in in 60 years.

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