Photos: Paratroopers returning from Afghanistan reunite with family at JBER

Staff Sgt. Michael Prado gives his son Damian a kiss as family and friends welcomed home the first main body flight of 300 U.S. Army Alaska paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) as they arrived at Hangar 1 on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Sunday, May 6, 2018. Damian was two-weeks-old when his dad left for a 9 month deployment to Afghanistan where U.S. troops are advising and assisting Afghan National Security Forces in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. (Bill Roth / ADN)