RAMADI, Iraq – So you return from leave. You just said bye to your family. Probably don’t feel like coming back to Iraq after two weeks at home. And then you walk in your office and notice everything has been covered with neon Post-It notes.

Staff Sgt. Keeley Weeks of Puyallup, the brigade’s senior paralegal and main culprit of the redecoration, summed it up best: “It looks like the ’80s vomited in his office.”

Welcome back to Ramadi, Doug Lineberry.

Lineberry, a major and the judge advocate general for the 81st Brigade Combat Team, arrived to just that scene Monday. He was a bit at a loss for words at first but took it in stride.

"Hey," he told the six people gathered to witness his reaction, "at least you missed me."