Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley welcomed her husband home following his deployment with the South Carolina National Guard.
In June 2023, Michael Haley was deployed to Djibouti for a year. “It’s so many mixed emotions,” Nikki told reporters after his deployment ceremony, There’s so much pride. As a wife, a military spouse, this is when we start the yearlong prayer of making sure they go there, they do their job effectively, they do it in a way that’s strong, and that they come home safely.”
On Saturday, the couple was reunited.
“That moment when you finally take a breath…It’s been a long year but even longer without each other. Thankful for Michael’s safe return and the end of a year long prayer,” said Haley on X.
Haley is a South Carolina Army National Guard officer specializing in security cooperation.
Haley and Nimarata Nikki Randhawa met in 1989 while he was attending Anderson University, and she was attending nearby Clemson University.
“I would be lost without him,” Nikki wrote about Michael in her 2012 memoir, Can’t Is Not an Option: My American Story.
They were married in 1996 in two ceremonies, a Sikh ceremony and a wedding at St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea, the Methodist church in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where Haley’s parents, Carole and Bill Haley, reside.
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