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‘Best Christmas present ever’

Staff Sgt. Chad Lawless, of Swartz, La., kisses his wife, Angela, and hugs his daughter, Lily, 4, and sons, Luke, 2, and Levi, 6 months. Lawless met Levi for the first time in person at the welcome-home event in Monroe, La., Dec. 24, 2015. More than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1023rd Engineer Company, 528th Engineer Battalion just completed a 10-month deployment to Kuwait, with additional missions to Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan.

PHOTO BY: 1st Lt. Rebekah Malone
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