MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Sgt. John Braun and his wife, Susan Braun, are finally going to get their honeymoon.

The newlyweds were out one night a year and a half ago when he broke the news to her: his Minnesota National Guard unit had been called up.

"We were dancing, and he whispered in my ear that he would have to go to Bosnia," she said. But four months later, his mission changed. He was going to Iraq instead.

For the 18 months of their marriage, they've been together just 65 days at their home in Albertville. But they were reunited Thursday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. It was one of many reunions as soldiers of the 434th Main Support Battalion's Company B returned from a year in Iraq.

Their plane was late getting in. It was due shortly after 3 p.m.

"3:09," Susan Braun said, looking to the runway, then laughing. "I've been bouncing off of the walls."

The unit drove supply routes through Iraq, among the war's most dangerous jobs. The unit has logged 1.2 million miles since it was deployed to Iraq on Jan. 7. Its members earned 12 Purple Hearts.

Company B's vehicles were easy marks for insurgents' roadside bombs. Few of their vehicles were armored when they arrived in Iraq, said First Sgt. Stan Sabin. Now almost all of them are.

"Starting in June, it just got crazy," said Tom Christy, a soldier from Mounds View. That was the month the company had its lone death, Sgt. Manny Hornedo, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Some of the injured are still hospitalized.

"Anytime they went outside the wire, they were subject to improvised explosive devices, mortar, small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades," Sabin said.

They did civil affairs work when they could, delivering classroom supplies, building a swing set at a school. They set up a medical clinic, with National Guard soldiers who are doctors in their civilian lives attending to Iraqi residents.

"These guys are million-dollar doctors back home," John Braun said.

Forty of the company's 250 soldiers re-enlisted for at least three years while they were in Iraq, Sabin said.

A Minnesota National guard soldier from a different unit had a special homecoming Thursday. After nearly a year in Iraq and two months in hospitals, Adam Standfuss was welcomed home to Danube.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Hector, Bird Island, Olivia and his hometown, cheering for Standfuss and his escort of fire trucks and squad cars.

Jean Duane, a Blue Star mother from Bird Island, said she and other organizers put the welcome together on short notice to show their appreciation to Standfuss, who was injured Sept. 13 along with three other members of the Olivia-based Alpha Company, 1-151st Field Artillery unit.

Standfuss and Guardsmen Gary Nere and Lucas Billmeier had just gotten into a Humvee when it was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. Standfuss was the most seriously hurt. His left arm and right little finger had to be amputated. He also suffered shrapnel wounds to his arms and legs. He also had several broken bones and his right eardrum blown out, according to his family.

"I wouldn't miss this for the world," said Keith Potter of Danube, who along with his wife Brygida waited in the 22-degree weather. The Potters' son Adam is a good friend of Standfuss and is going to Iraq in August.

"I want to welcome him home. He's been through a lot," said Gene Frank of Renville.