Approximately 160 Soldiers from the 379th Engineer Company, Massachusetts Army National Guard, are welcomed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Maj. Gen L. Scott Rice, the adjutant general of Massachusetts, Maj. Gen. Craig Olsen, program officer for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Networks and other members of the Massachusetts National Guard and Hanscom Air Force Base command groups at a plane-side ceremony here, Dec. 5, 2014. The Soldiers of the 379th Engineer Company, located in Bourne, Mass. deployed to Afghanistan for approximately nine months in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs/Released)