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Noelle Johnson (left), of Danville, hugs her boyfriend Spec. Jeffrey Buron, of Danville, who is with Bravo Company, 149th Brigade Support Battalion, Thursday as his mother Cynthia Richmond, of Lewisburg, waits to hug him after he arrived at the National Guard Armory in Bowling Green. Family and friends welcomed home 75 Kentucky National Guard soldiers home from a six month deployment in Iraq. The soldiers are from Bravo Company, 149th Brigade Support Battalion, which is part of the 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade. The brigade deployed more than 1,300 soldiers to Iraq in June in the Kentucky Guard's largest overseas deployment since World War II.