120 Indiana National Guard soldiers return home from 10-month Middle East deployment

Soldiers shake hands with leaders standing to receive them as they walk off the steps of a plane.

Indiana National Guard soldiers with the 252nd Support Maintenance Company are welcomed home by Indiana National Guard leadership in Indianapolis after returning from a 10-month deployment in the Middle East, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jeff Lowry/Indiana National Guard)

About 120 Indiana National Guard soldiers returned home from a 10-month deployment in the Middle East on Wednesday, according to a service news release.

The soldiers are with the 252nd Support Maintenance Company, which is based at Stout Field, and serviced equipment that supported three U.S. Central Command campaigns, including Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve.

The guardsmen worked more than 46,000 hours of repairs and completed over 7,200 work orders, the release said, across a wide range of equipment and weapon systems.

“We did an outstanding job, everybody did an outstanding job,” said 1st Sgt. David Tallent, the company’s senior enlisted leader. “Yet I am very happy to be home, and I think we all are.”

A soldier holds two children while two other family members stand besides him.

Indiana National Guard Staff Sgt. Zachary Mally, of Greencastle and a 252nd Support Maintenance Company wheeled vehicle mechanic, holds his children at the Indianapolis airport after coming home from a 10-month deployment in the Middle East, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jeff Lowry/Indiana National Guard)

A vertical photo of soldiers shaking hands with their leaders on the tarmac in front of a plane.

A line of soldiers walks off the steps of a plane, with those closest to the camera shaking the hand of one of their leaders.

Indiana National Guard soldiers with the 252nd Support Maintenance Company depart a plane in Indianapolis after returning from a 10-month deployment in the Middle East, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jeff Lowry/Indiana National Guard)

A line of soldiers walking off the steps of a plane and shaking hands with leaders standing to receive them.

A soldier inclines his body forward slightly to shake hands with his leaders on the tarmac by a plane.

Indiana National Guard Capt. Joshua Frees, right, of Carmel and the 252nd Support Maintenance Company, shakes hands with Indiana National Guard leadership after coming home from a 10-month deployment in the Middle East, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jeff Lowry/Indiana National Guard)

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120 Indiana National Guard soldiers return home from 10-month Middle East deployment

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