Staff Sgt. Teo Mejiaperalto holds his son for the first time in six months after returning home from a deployment, as his wife and daughter walk with him through the Anchorage (Alaska) International Airport Sept. 13, 2009. Sergeant Mejiaperalto belongs to the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, and was one of the 37 squadron Airmen to deploy to Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Craig Dunbar)