Iowa National Guardsman home for Christmas

Iowa National Guards

Soldier surprises children on Christmas Eve
Quad City Times
By Thomas Geyer
December 24, 2013

For Staff Sgt. Sean Jacobsmeier and the soldiers of Bravo Company of the 248th Aviation Support Battalion out of Boone, Iowa, finding out Monday they had a four-day leave for Christmas was a welcome present.

But Jacobsmeier's surprise became a bigger one for his three children on Christmas Eve when he took the stage in the middle of the Christmas pageant at First Presbyterian Church, Davenport.

Jacobsmeier, 36, and the 40 other members of his Iowa National Guard company have spent the past couple of months training at Fort Hood, Texas, for their assignment in Kosovo.

The aviation support battalion does maintenance on the aircraft, the Davenport man added.

He and his wife, Theresa, 31, talked about a possible Christmas homecoming when he was sent to Fort Hood about the first of November, he said.

“This is my second deployment,” Jacobsmeier said. “I was deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009. I had one child then, Benny, who was just a baby, and who is now 6. I now have a 3-year-old, David, and a 3-month-old girl, Alice.”
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