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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Eighty more Vermont National Guard soldiers are back home after a yearlong deployment, which included about nine months in Afghanistan.

A plane carrying the Vermonters arrived at the Burlington International Airport on Thursday. The plane had already stopped in Manchester, N.H., to drop troops off there. After Vermont the plane is headed to Bangor, Maine.

In Burlington, the troops were greeted by well-wishers waving flags while an Army band played “Yankee Doodle” and “I’ll be Home for Christmas.”

About 1,500 Vermont soldiers served in Afghanistan. There were about 300 soldiers from Maine and New Hampshire in the same unit. They all served in the same unit.

They’re all due back in the U.S. by Christmas.

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