Little girl can’t wait to hug dad after deployment

Lt. Ogelsby’s daughters and his wife were patiently waiting for him to be dismissed from duty at Ft. Karas broke protocol, but there is no indication that the Army plans to punish the little girl for her act of insubordination.

After the ceremony was complete, Karas and her sister, Layla, were able to give their father a very warm welcome home. “I wasn’t gonna tell her no”, Oglesby tells the station.

The video of the touching moment has been picked up by numerous media outlets but the original footage posted to the KKTV News Facebook page has been watched over 800,000 times. We know one little girl is certainly excited to have you back! Can you blame her?

Despite the formality of the ceremony, he reached down to sweetly hug her back and give her a kiss.

According to the Colorado Springs Gazette nearly 300 soldiers returned from the Middle East over the past week.

“That’s the toughest part of the entire job is to be away from the family”, he said.

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