Photo By Sgt. Audrey Hayes | U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 603rd Military Police Company stand in formation...... read more read more
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FORT MEADE, Md. – Our nation’s flag lapped against a blue, Belton, Missouri sky as it hung from the top of a fire engine ladder that was parked in front of a U.S. Army Reserve Center. The flag and fire engine display were there to welcome home U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from a 9-month Guantanamo Bay, Cuba deployment, Sept. 22, 2017.
The returning military police Soldiers belong to the 603rd MP Company,
headquartered in Belton, Missouri. During their deployment, the MPs were
responsible for providing care and custody of detainees at the Guantanamo
Bay Naval Station.
The city of Belton's mayor, Jeff Davis, attended the ceremony along with Adam Timmerman, a spokesman from the office of U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler.
The senior enlisted leader of the 603rd, First Sgt. Chuck Porter, didn’t unite with his family at the ceremony. Instead, he waited until the evening and went to the Blue Valley Northwest High School football game to surprise his daughter, a member of the Blue Valley dance team.
As Porter walked onto the football field, his daughter ran to embrace her father for the first time in nine months. The crowd cheered as if their own loved one just returned home.
“You don’t know what effect this has on our community,” said Davis. “I have to tell you, on behalf of the city of Belton…, how proud we are that this group is in our city.”
FOR QUESTIONS SPECIFIC TO THIS RELEASE, PLEASE CONTACT THE 200TH MILITARY POLICE COMMAND: USARMY.USARC.200-MP-CMD.LIST.PAO-STAFF@MAIL.MIL
| Date Taken: | 09.29.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 10.03.2017 16:11 |
| Story ID: | 250455 |
| Location: | BELTON, MO, US |
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