A young boy waits to greet his father during a welcome home ceremony for Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment March 31, 2018, in McConnelsville, Ohio. The 2-174th was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, where the unit’s primary duty was to operate systems that detect and/or destroy incoming artillery, rockets and mortar rounds in the air before they hit their ground targets, to protect coalition forces. (Ohio National Guard

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