FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Tears, tight hugs and smiles as Fort Bragg soldiers return from a long deployment on Tuesday morning.
The troops with the Third Expeditionary Sustainment Command were supposed to return on Monday, but after two delays they arrived shortly before 5:00 a.m.
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The unit is returning home from a nearly nine-month deployment to Kuwait.
They played an integral part in the evacuation of more than 100,000 people and 7,000 American troops from the airport in Kabul last August.
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More soldiers from Fort Bragg are deployed in eastern Europe, in response to the war in Ukraine.
There is no timeline for when they'll be returning home.