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Soldiers quickly left the scorching tarmac and boarded the air-conditioned buses that would take them to High Point or Raleigh to meet with their families who had been eagerly awaiting their arrival for the past year.
"It was a long deployment," said U.S. Army Cpt. Adam Paschal, the battery commander for B Battery, 5/113th FA, "Every mission was accomplished and we left it in a better spot than when we got it."
With the overseas mission behind him, the Marshville, N.C. native said he is looking forward to some vacation time.
"My wife and I are going to relax. We missed our 10th wedding anniversary," said Paschal.
Before leaving the airport, some of the Soldiers reflected on how the perception of time changed with the season.
"At certain points, like at the beginning and around the holidays, it went really fast," said Spc. Omari Tait, a multiple launch rocket system repairer assigned to Bravo Battery, and a Greensboro local. "But at the end it seemed really slow. It was a great experience, both the good and the bad."
Looking forward, Tait was ready to get back to normal.
"I'm ready to go to the places I'm used to going to in Greensboro," he said.
The Battery conducted multiple bilateral live-fire exercises in Kuwait and Qatar with Kuwait and Qatar Armed Forces.
"We conducted shoulder to shoulder training where we'd show them our launcher and they'd show us theirs," said Paschal. "And we had the opportunity to load up on Qatari C17 and fly in on their airplane and to conduct the live fire."
Bravo Battery is based in Winston-Salem with units from Louisburg, Youngsville and Greensboro. Their primary mission overseas was to provide artillery fires using the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System in support of Coalition Forces to defeat ISIS.
Soldiers assigned to Bravo Battery, 5-113th are no strangers to overseas deployments. The unit has deployed five times since September 11, 2001, including Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005, Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt during 2012, Multi-National Exercise Anakonda, in Poland in 2016, and Multi-National Exercise Saber Guardian in Romania in 2017.
| Date Taken: | 07.14.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 07.14.2019 14:50 |
| Story ID: | 331282 |
| Location: | GREENSBORO, NC, US |
| Hometown: | GREENSBORO, NC, US |
| Hometown: | MARSHVILLE, NC, US |
| Hometown: | RALEIGH, NC, US |
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