48th Brigade returns
Vietnam veteran and American Red Cross volunteer Craig Johnson, 63, is on hand to salute every soldier of the 48th Brigade Combat Team as the first flight home arrives at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah. Georgia's 48th Brigade spent the last year in Afghanistan. Over the next 45 days more than 3,000 soldiers of the 48th Brigade from across Georgia will be returning home. "We didn't have this many years ago when I came home," Johnson said. "Not a single salute or a hand shake." Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com
