--- title: Little Girl Hugs Soldier Dad at Fort Carson Homecoming description: Girl hugs dad in middle of homecoming ceremony for Fort Carson troops returning from deployment canonical: https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-07T18:37:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:42.740Z og:title: Watch a Girl Interrupt a Troop's Homecoming Ceremony to Hug Her Dad og:description: He'd been deployed in southwest Asia og:url: https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Girl Interrupt a Troop's Homecoming Ceremony to Hug Her Dad twitter:description: He'd been deployed in southwest Asia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Girl Interrupt a Troop's Homecoming Ceremony to Hug Her Dad  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 7, 2015 6:37 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 7, 2015 6:37 PM UTC At a homecoming for the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Carson, Colorado, a girl in an American flag-themed outfit stole the show by running up to her dad, Lieutenant Daniel Oglesby, to give him a hug in the middle of the ceremony. The troops were deployed in southwest Asia for about 8-9 months. He [told FOX 21 News](http://fox21news.com/2015/10/06/families-of-fort-carson-soldiers-welcome-their-heroes-home/) that when he saw his daughter, Cara, racing towards him, he “was trying to decide whether or not it was good practice to break formation, but I didn’t have the heart in me to not give my little baby a hug.” Little Girl Hugs Soldier Dad at Fort Carson Homecoming ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/"},"headline":"Watch a Girl Interrupt a Troop's Homecoming Ceremony to Hug Her Dad","datePublished":"2015-10-07T18:37:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:42.740Z","description":"He'd been deployed in southwest Asia","url":"https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4065038/girl-hugs-dad-homecoming-fort-carson/","name":"Watch a Girl Interrupt a Troop's Homecoming Ceremony to Hug Her Dad"}}]}] ```