'Welcome home, daddy'
Laurie Sanchez and son Thomas, 2, anxiously await the return of their husband and father, Tech. Sgt. Jody Sanchez, Feb. 5, 2009, at the Colorado Springs Airport in Colorado. Sergeant Sanchez was one of more than 35 Air Force Reserve security forces Airmen deployed from the 302nd Security Forces Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., who returned home from a six-month deployment at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. "I can't wait to see him in front of me with Thomas," Mrs. Sanchez said before his arrival. "I'm ready to get back to normal, daily life." (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Daniel Butterfield)