More than 100 troops from the 45th Sustainment Brigade’s headquarters met an emotional explosion of cheers, waving signs and anxious families and friends as they marched into a hangar on Wheeler Airfield, Hawaii, Dec. 3, 2014, marking the end of the Soldiers’ eight-month mission in Afghanistan. While deployed, the Schofield Barracks-based unit was the final brigade to headquarter the U.S. Central Command Materiel Recovery Element (CMRE) charged with sorting, tracking and recovering all U.S. military equipment from an operational area roughly the size of the state of Texas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich, 8th Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs/RELEASED)