Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class David R. Bryant has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terrorism military operations involving U.S. troops and allied coalition partners. Active duty and reserve component members from all branches of the U.S. armed forces have been deployed to support the war against global terrorism outside the borders of the United States.

U.S. troops serve in South, Southwest and Central Asia, the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific and Europe. Bryant, a cannon crewmember with 14 years of military service, is assigned to the U.S. Army Support Unit based at Fort Dix, Trenton, N.J.

He resides in Fayette. The sergeant graduated in 1973 from Winthrop High School.