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Atlantic City-based Ironworkers Local 350 is honoring a member who returned in September from a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq with the Army National Guard.

Sgt. Brian V. Thomas, 31, of Galloway Township, will be feted at 7 tonight at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 220 on Route 50 in Mays Landing. Among the attendees expected are state Sen. Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic, Hamilton Township Mayor Nelson Gaskill and Local 350 President Will Pauls.

Thomas, a 1996 graduate of Furness High School in Philadelphia, was stationed with the 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry out of West Chester, Pa. In Iraq, he served at a joint security site at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad.

"I plan to take some time and travel to Australia," Thomas, a journeyman and ironworker since 2000, said Monday. "But it's good to be home."

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