Soldiers come home to families, crowded Carson

Soldiers come home to families, crowded Carson

August 25, 2009 5:19 PM
TOM ROEDER
THE GAZETTE
The lines at Fort Carson — to get on the post, to get a burger, to do just about anything — got a bit longer today.

The post was a virtual ghost town early this year with just a few thousand GIs on hand. Now, with soldiers coming home from Iraq and arriving by the score every day to fill out the 4th Infantry Division headquarters and its 1st Brigade Combat Team, the post is brimming.

And leaders couldn’t be happier.

“It’s great getting all these kids home safe,” said division Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey at a ceremony this afternoon to welcome 230 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team back from a year in Iraq.

The post now houses three combat brigades — more troops than have been on the post at one time since the invasion of Iraq.
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Soldiers come home to families crowded Carson