EL PASO, Texas -- Around 800 soldiers returned home Saturday on three different flights, and for some, they met the newest addition to their families for the first time. The terminal at Biggs Army Airfield looked more like a day care than a homecoming, with babies everywhere you turned. Many of the young ones were born while their fathers served in Iraq.

"A lot of wives get pregnant before the husbands leave, and they have the babies on their own," said Carol Frennier with the Family Readiness Group.

That includes 3-month-old Alyssa Bailey. She has never seen her dad in person.

"We have to do the whole webcam thing, the telephone thing, and as far as she knows he's in the telephone, or he's in the computer, it's hard," said Alyssa's father, Kayla Jean Bailey.

Soon enough the plane landed with Cpl. Joshua Bailey inside. The soldiers walked off the plane, and toward their families and friends who have waited too long for this day.

As the soldiers marched in, a smile of a proud wife and mother came across Kayla's face. Kayla's husband came home. Alyssa's daddy came home, and he's not on the webcam, not on the telephone this time.

"He's got a lot of bonding to do, his little girl," said Kayla.