LEWISTON – The last soldiers from the 133rd Engineer Battalion are on their way home.

In all, 22 members of the Maine Army National Guard unit stayed behind in Kuwait when the bulk of the soldiers, about 500, returned to the United States in late February.

Between seven and nine of the returning soldiers are from the battalion’s C Company, based in Lewiston and Norway, said Peter Rogers, spokesman for the Maine Guard.

Their bus is expected to pull into the Lewiston armory on Alfred Plourde Parkway sometime after 9 a.m. today.

The soldiers were scheduled to leave Fort Drum, N.Y., at 10 p.m. Friday.

The bus is to stop at armories in Westbrook and Portland before arriving in Lewiston. It is then scheduled to proceed to Belfast.

The soldiers remained in Kuwait to handle remaining logistics and prepare for the return of the battalion’s equipment to Maine.

The unit was in Iraq for about a year.