Another group of Missouri National Guard members have returned home from Afghanistan. The 60 soldiers and airmen spent 11 months in the country's Nangarhar Province helping Afghan farmers with growing crops and working on other projects. Lt. Colonel Tim Hartman from the St. Louis area says for the most part, the locals treated them well.

"Being farmers, they understood that we were there to help, and I think that helped a lot 90% of the population is fine they just want everything to be over and (be) in a stable country unfortunately, there's 5% that don't care and 5% that don't want us, so you work with the ones that do do the best you can with them."

The detachment was welcomed home at a ceremony Friday inside the State Capitol Building in Jefferson City. Another Missouri Guard agricultural team is currently stationed in Afghanistan, and is due to return in about 10 months. © Copyright 2012, KBIA