-- Airports in Dallas and Atlanta are bracing for a flood of soldiers flying in from Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
The homecomings are part of the military's relaunched 15-day rest and recuperation program.
The Army picked the two airports as arrival hubs because most units are from the South and Southwest. The military is paying for connecting flights to the airport closest to each soldier's destination.
Some four-thousand military personnel are expected to pass through the Dallas airport each month. Daily charter flights begin landing June 15th.
Volunteers have been enlisted to greet the arrivals with cheers. Also awaiting the soldiers will be travelers' aides, chaplains and a new U-S-O club.
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Family members greet US Army soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq, Fort Stewart, Georgia, photo
