Mayor of South Bend Heading Back from Serving in Afghanistan

South Bend mayor returning home tonight from service in Afghanistan
WSBT-TV Report
Sep 25, 2014

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg in Afghanistan

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is returning home tonight after 7 months serving with the U.S. Navy in Afghanistan!

He is scheduled to fly into the South Bend International Airport at 8:35 p.m. If you want to welcome him home, you are invited to meet him at Concourse A.

"Mayor Buttigieg will spend the next week settling back into life in South Bend, connecting with family and friends, and visiting Naval Station Great Lakes to complete final administrative procedures to end his deployment," according to the mayor's communications director, Kara Kelly. "He will return to work on Monday, October 6, relieving Deputy Mayor Mark Neal, who has been holding the authorities of the office during Mayor Buttigieg’s absence."
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