VOLK FIELD, Wis. (WKBT) — Nearly 100 Wisconsin troops are back home after a six-month deployment. Members of the 128th Control Squadron were welcomed to Volk Field Tuesday morning, back into the arms of the people who love them.
“It is wonderful. There is just a sense of relief, a sense of happiness,” said Brian Bergman, whose wife, Cmdr. Cynthianna Bergman, was deployed.
This was Bergman’s third and final deployment.
“Every leadership lesson I’ve ever taken– I was pulling from all of it,” she said.
The deployment challenged her military skills and her most important role as wife and mom.
“We talked almost every day on the phone, but it certainly is different to hug and to be there and to just help out around the house,” she said.
Her husband stepped up to support her, taking over her mission at home.
“It was very challenging to be responsible for all of the family needs,” he said.
Over the last six months, this family found a way to stay close even when they were apart.
“He was my rock,” Cmdr. Bergman said.
Now they are reunited.
“When she walked in the house early in the morning and surprised her kids and her daughter, the youngest just cried and hugged. It was pretty special,” Brian Bergman said.
Now that this deployment is complete, those servicemembers are going to return right back to their lives at home.
This squadron performed air surveillance, aircraft tracking and command, and control of aircraft operations throughout the Middle East.
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