Army Specialist Shaun Thompson, 24, a native of New Richmond, was welcomed back to Clermont County on Tuesday, June 16 during the commissioners meeting. SPC Thompson, an infantryman in the U.S. Army, just returned last week from a 15 month deployment to Sadr City, Iraq.

Thompson is a 2003 graduate of New Richmond High School, he worked as a corrections officer for the Clermont County Sheriff’s Department for three years before joining the Army in 2006.