More Charleston area troops are making their way home from extended overseas deployments in the war.
Twenty-six members of the South Carolina National Guard’s 218th Brigade Combat Team who served in Afghanistan arrived Thursday in North Charleston.
A contracted airline’s bankruptcy last month prevented hundreds of soldiers from getting home on time.
One of them was Capt. Trae Redmond III, who was among the group that arrived about 5 p.m. Thursday at the National Guard Armory on Cross County Road. He left in January 2007 and his son, Grady, was born the next month.
“We got through it,” Redmond’s wife, Jennifer, said Friday evening as her husband bathed their son at their North Charleston home.