Andrew Laker / The Republic via AP

Spc. John Lundy, right, and Spc. Matthew Sturgill, obscured, leap into the arms of Pfc. Devin Horton, left, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind., as 109 members of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, Army National Guard, prepare to board a bus home to Kentucky and join their families for the holidays. As part of the last soldiers to leave Iraq, the men arrived at Camp Atterbury on Dec. 21. The U.S. military announced Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, that the last American troops have left Iraq as the nearly nine-year war ends.

Home for the holidays, troops a bus ride away from joining their families

By Natalia Jimenez, NBC News

Some of the last troops to leave Iraq were just a bus ride away from joining their families for the holidays. They spent the last couple of days at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind. According to AP, the base was used for returning troops for administrative and reintegration activities, as they officially come off active duty.

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