Deployed Military Units Return Home

When hundreds of Navy Sea Bees piled out of buses after being deployed overseas for months, Amanda Hernanez says all she could think about is having her husband back in her arms. Amanda Hernandez tells News 25, “I love him so much it’s just so hard to be away from him and be alone and it’s really hard” after completing navy operation mostly centered in Spain and the horn of Africa, over three hundred and twenty personnel from naval mobile construction battalion 133 and 22 returned home at the Seabee base in Gulfport. Elena Watkins was waiting to reunite with her father. Who tells News 25 is her hero. “I haven’t seen him in six months so I don’t know what to expect.” Amanda has been married to her husband Marvin Hernandez for barrel a year she says she couldn’t sleep the night before his home coming. It has been the longest time the two have spent apart. Her feelings before reuniting: Amanda Hernandez tells News 25, “I feel sick to my stomach and my hands are all sweaty I’m so hot and then cold and then hot and excited and tired.” News 25 Gina Tomlinson tells us, “Hundreds of family members stood outside waiting for their loved ones Amanda says she’s spent more time waiting for her husband to come home then they’ve been married.” Marvin Hernandez tells News 25, “It definitely wasn’t easy. but for all you newlyweds out there you guys have to stay strong, be on the same page, and don’t give up.” after hours of waiting in the night’s heat it was clear her at the naval construction battalion center that when these military units go out to serve our country. Family becomes part of the mission. Louis Martinez tells News 25, “They have to stay here and wait for us when we are out there and support themselves and our mora when we are out there too.”