Hundreds Welcome Guard Unit Home From Africa by July 2, 2021 South Dakota National GuardNews Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Here is alink to the audioinstead. A South Dakota National Guard unit arrived home Thursday from a deployment to Africa. Politicians including Gov. Kristi Noem, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, and Sen. John Thune joined the public to give the unit a hero’s welcome. A crowd of over 700 friends and family gathered to support the 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade. The unit spent 10 months working with an African task force to promote stability in the country. The soldiers arrived in the United States from Djibouti in eastern Africa.