MIDLAND COUNTY, Mich. -- Midland’s 1460th National Guard Unit is celebrating its homecoming this weekend.

The unit is due to arrive home to Midland on Sunday morning.

The soldiers recently completed a nine-month tour in Iraq and will be welcomed home by friends and family at the Midland County Fairgrounds.

This deployment is the second for the transportation company.

The unit will parade through downtown Midland around 8 a.m. and then head to the fairgrounds for a standing-down ceremony.

While in Iraq, the soldiers were stationed at Camp Bucca where they performed the guard force security mission at the Detainee Review Assessment Board, processing more than 12,000 detainees.

The Soldiers also trained and graduated more than 500 Iraqi Correctional Officers at the ICO Academy, and they conducted numerous search and seizure missions inside the theater internment facility, increasing the overall security of the Coalition forces and detainees inside the compounds.

The Soldiers received many awards including four Meritorious Service Medals, 43 Army Commendation Medals, and numerous other awards.

The company is made up of men and women from Midland, Bay and Saginaw counties.