Matt came home for some R&R nine months into his second deployment to Iraq. Mel flew in from New Zealand to join him.
Matt had a two-week vacation from Iraq at the end of March. He was joined in Sierra Vista by his girlfriend Mel, her parents from Washington state, and Cherie's sister Shelley's family from Michigan.
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Barbeque at Pete's family's house
Reliving the wild west in the ghost town of Charleston