Home sweet home
Jet, April 12, 2004
HOME SWEET HOME: After having served overseas in Kuwait and Iraq for 346 days, Staff Sgt. James N Smith of the Las Vegas-based Army Reserve 257th Transportation Company comes home just in time to hear his 8-month-old son Malik's first word: "Daddy." Smith, a citizen-soldier who works a civilian job as a Las Vegas school bus driver, served with 252 other soldiers in Nevada's largest Army Reserve unit for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The unit recently returned to Nellis Air Force base after traveling a total of on miles in heavy-haul trucks to deliver armed vehicles to soldiers since April 6.
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