A family member of a deployed North Carolina Air National Guardsman holds a sign to welcome back her loved one, while at the flight line of the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, July 5th, 2017. The deployers returned from a six month mission overseas in Southwest Asia supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.

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