4/25 IBCT (ABN) Public Affairs
11/18/2014 - JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Family and fellow Soldiers gathered at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska to welcome eight members of the 8th Forward Surgical Team, 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division home from deployment Nov. 4.
"I don't know what to do," a visibly-excited Jackie Triolo said to a fellow spouse waiting in an airport terminal. "Should I run up to him or wait here? What should I do?"
When her husband, Spc. Anthony Triolo, walked into the terminal, she broke from the crowd in the concourse to hug him.
The eight redeployed soldiers were also welcomed back by the of the 4/25th IBCT commander, Army Col. Matthew McFarlane, as well as several other leaders from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
The team was attached to Combined-Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan for the nine-month deployment to support the special operations mission there.
"We did missions all over Afghanistan, so I've been just about everywhere there," said Army Maj. Ernest Dorema, officer in-charge of the critical care trauma nurse section of the 8th FST. "We spread out and got to work immediately. We built a hospital and helped a lot of people, so our footprint will be there for a long time."
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