"I'm glad to be home and be able to relax and do what I want to do," he said. "When you go over to Iraq, it's like time stops over here and it's like a dream world. You know it's there and you have pictures of back home and everything."

"The Iraqi Army and the Iraqi police are getting better and they're getting more trained," Gibbons said. "They're going on missions by themselves."

"We were the guys pretty much training them on how to do the stuff," Gibbons said. "I'm glad that it's getting better, but I'm hoping that we get out of there altogether soon."