Tennessee National Guard members returning today

By The Associated Press

NASHVILLE (AP) — About 100 soldiers from the National Guard’s Nashville-based 230th Signal Co. are scheduled to return home today.

The soldiers have spent the past year in Afghanistan.

According to a news release from the Guard, the soldiers began their out-processing in Fort Dix, N.J., earlier this week. They will complete that process at the volunteer training site in Smyrna.

The soldiers are scheduled to arrive there at 3:30 p.m.

More than 27,000 Tennessee Army and Air National Guardsmen have deployed since Sept. 11, 2001.