More than 125 West Virginia National Guard soldiers returned home on Saturday after being deployed in the middle east for nine months. Hundreds of family members were at the base in Charleston ready to greet them in the hangar when they landed. The soldiers, from all over West Virginia, have spent the past nine months as the 111th Engineer Brigade in different parts of the Middle East but headquartered in Kuwait. They completed over 500 missions including all kinds of infrastructure and engineering projects, but their biggest was creating a ‘Freedom Village’ to house and support thousands of Afghan evacuees.