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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- A happy homecoming for hundreds of Fort Carson families Monday, as the Mountain Post welcomed home approximately 250 soldiers.

The men and women are with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

They spent the past nine months in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

"It feels great, feels good to be home with my family," Spc. Robert Glass said.

"I just started crying, I am so happy that he is safe and home," Toshia Glass, Robert's wife, said. "We found out three weeks before he left I was pregnant."

"This is my son Tristan, he was born a couple of months ago while I was deployed, so this is the first time I am actually getting to hold him," Spc. Glass said.

"I just think it is really great, so proud they are home and safe," Janet Gemberlind, Rober's grandmother, said.

There was not a dry eye in the Special Events Center on Fort Carson, as the soldiers embraced their loved ones for the first time in a long time.

"I started crying, they are safe and home, they are not in harms way anymore," Gemberlind said.

"We broke formation, and just an immediate smile on my face, so glad to see them," Sgt. Shane Everett said.

"Very proud and very happy that he came home, and so excited to see what he does in the future," Grant Kouri, Sgt. Everett's friend, said.