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Lower Welcomes Home Afghanistan Veteran

 

By Jack Fichter

VILLAS – Army Spc. Kerri Numbers, a lifelong Lower Township resident and a 2006 graduate of Lower Cape May Regional High School, received a hero’s welcome when she stepped off a plane at Atlantic City International Airport at 6:45 p.m. Mon., June 21.
She was escorted to Villas VFW Post by a contingency of motorcycles from the American Legion Riders. She received a police escort and the Villas Fire Company joined the escort as she passed by. She arrived in uniform seated on the back of a Harley.
The welcome was a surprise, put together by her parents Fran and Cindy Numbers and the VFW Post. Her stay will be short, just two weeks before she re-deploys to Germany.
She told the Herald she enjoys being a MP. She was part of an advance team for Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan. She had some close calls including being near more than one bomb blast including one at NATO Headquarters.
Numbers said she would like to return to Afghanistan. After enlisting in 2008, after a year at Penn State, she was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany with the 554th Military Police Company. Her mother said she has had a long interest in police work. She was an intern with Lower Township police and a volunteer with Town Bank Fire Company.
She mentioned eating ice cream and going to the beach as two activities she hopes to do while home.

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