FORT DRUM, N.Y. - Soldiers who helped during evacuations in Kabul, Afghanistan returned home to a thunderous welcome ceremony on Sept.
6 at Fort Drum, New York. Video shared of the ceremony shows the "Polar Bears" of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, filing into a building as friends and family applaud and cheer.
The commander of the 10th Mountain Division, Maj. Gen. Milford H. Beagle commended the soldiers’ leadership and thanked them for their service in Afghanistan. "Thank you for doing your duty, which your nation asked you to do.
Thank you all for making every single one of us proud of every one of you standing in this formation," he said. Some of the U.S.