Copperheads 1st/17th return to Fort Sill
Click on thumbnail image to enlarge - (Photos courtesy of Richard Jones)

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Brigadier General David P. Valcourt welcomes the troops home

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Colonel Thomas Vandal welcomes his troops home 

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Crowd awaiting arrival of Copperheads 

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Troops finally marching into the hanger

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Banner in Memory of PFC Wyatt

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Copperheads in a moment of prayer

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L-R SPC Carlos Ruiz, SPC Jamel Oliver, PFC Justin Blankton

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SGT Shayne Rutherford & wife Emily

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 Cpl. Will McDonald & wife Michelle

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Welcome home Task Force for 17FA Copperheads, L-R Claudia Fisher, Emily Rutherford, Michelle McDaniel