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Arizona National Guard company returns from mission in Middle East

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'I think it's important that we are doing what we need to do in the Middle East, but on the other hand, this is my son. It's important to me that he's home safe.'

But no one was talking about war Friday at Sky Harbor Airport — because this was a homecoming.

Jake is one of 87 members of the Arizona National Guards' Alpha Company, 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion who just returned after a 10-month deployment in the Middle East. As the guardsmen were dismissed, Edith Valdez and 4-year-old Cesar had their eyes set on one of them, Sargeant Cesar Valdez. Alpha Company provided communication services to coalition forces in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Spartan Shield; two missions targeting ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa.

 

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