A Fort Riley soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan is back home in Topeka after more than 100 surgeries at hospitals in Washington and Baltimore.

Members of the American Legion and the Patriot Guard were on hand Friday to salute the arrival of 27-year-old Sgt. Jamie Jarboe at Billard Airport. Jarboe could not return the salute — he remains paralyzed from the chest down from the sniper’s bullet that struck him in the neck and penetrated his spine.

Jarboe was moved from the private medical plane onto a stretcher and taken to a Topeka rehab center. Melissa Jarboe says her husband will undergo several more surgeries. But she’s happy to have him home where she and their daughters will be able to visit him.