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Operation Welcome Home volunteers greet a U.S. airman upon his arrival at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Md., Dec. 22, 2010. The airman was among 260 U.S. troops returning home for the holidays after months of service abroad, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operation Welcome Home volunteers greet a U.S. airman upon his arrival at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Md., Dec. 22, 2010. The airman was among 260 U.S. troops returning home for the holidays after months of service abroad, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operation Welcome Home volunteers greet a U.S. airman upon his arrival at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Md., Dec. 22, 2010. The airman was among 260 U.S. troops returning home for the holidays after months of service abroad, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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