Five-year-old Jacob Fisher isn’t going to let his mother forget that his father is due home from Iraq any day now.

“He keeps asking, ‘Are we picking up Daddy today? Are we picking up Daddy today?’” Jacob’s mother, Elizabeth Fisher of Tunnel Hill, Ga., said with a laugh.

Mrs. Fisher finally is going to be able to answer that question in the affirmative Saturday, when Sgt. Matthew Fisher and 20 other members of the Army Reserve’s 591st Transportation Detachment return to their home base in Chattanooga.

The 591st had been coordinating cargo transportation in Iraq since last summer. Unit members finally made it back to Camp Atterbury, Ind., this week for “demobilization” and are expected to arrive at their headquarters around 10 a.m. Saturday — just in time for an extra-special Independence Day celebration, said unit administrator Pat Canerdy.

“We’d love to have the public come out, wave their flags and signs and show them that they are appreciated and they are not forgotten,” said Mrs. Canerdy, a retired member of the 591st.

The former soldier said she wants to make sure that unit members receive as much support as she did when she returned from the 591st’s last Iraq deployment in 2005.

“The war was a little bit more popular then,” she said. “Now you don’t hear as much about what’s going on over there.”

The unit’s Family Readiness Group has been busy making decorations they’ll bring to unit headquarters Saturday, Mrs. Fisher said. But it’ll be the family reunions that will really make the day special — especially for two soldiers coming home to new babies, she said.

“I think they’re just ready to come home,” Mrs. Fisher said. “They’re anxious to come back and spend time with their families.”