Six-year-old Michael Merchant couldn't hold back his excitement when his mom, Lt. Commander Kim Dobrzyn, returned home from deployment.
Similarly to the little girl who broke military protocol to run into her daddy's arms, Merchant ran up to greet his mother in a heartwarming manner. The boy, who was there with his twin brother and dad, also held a sign that read, "Our heart is complete."
"I like it when my mom's here," Merchant told ABC 10 News. "She's like awesome!"
Lt. Commander Dobrzyn was just as excited to see her little ones. She also quickly noticed how much they changed in a matter of months.
"I didn't even recognize him because the hair is different and they're so big and they're talking differently," she told NBC San Diego.
Lt. Commander Dobrzyn is one of 50 servicemembers from the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The troops returned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California after being deployed for six months in the Middle East.
"Our primary mission was forward to provide crisis response," said Lt. Colonel Jay Matt. "It's a very diverse mission, as well as crisis response, also training coalition partners, training ourselves, keeping ourselves ready for anything that happens."
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