Members of the 282nd Engineer Company came home to Fort Carson after nine months in the Middle East with a ceremony that marked an end for some of its soldiers and a beginning for others.
The 70-member Army Reserve unit sent troops deep into Iraq to build bases for Americans and their allies fighting the Islamic State. Its troops graded new airfields and constructed combat outposts.
After six deployments, 1st Sgt Gaylon Johnson says it’s time to stay home and focus on his civilian job of driving an RTD bus in Denver.
But Spc. Ronnie Boerner turned his homecoming into the start of something big. He dropped to his knee as his girlfriend, Misha Putnam ran up. His gaze showed he was thinking of a new life of love not war.
His hard question got an easy answer. “There was no saying, ‘no’,” Putnam said.
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