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Ronald Dellums: “This is really an extremely important effort on behalf of our Army and National Guard participating soldiers. The…”

On the recordNovember 13, 1997
This is really an extremely important effort on behalf of our Army and National Guard participating soldiers. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has stepped forward today with a piece of legislation that will be very important to 4,206 Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers who, unfortunately, because of an administrative error, were not given the proper reimbursement on the shipment of personal goods. This really goes beyond the shipment of personal items. The Representative from North Carolina recognizes when these troops deploy to and from an overseas mission, they deserve to get a level of equity which, unfortunately, was not provided in this case. There are no second-class soldiers in the United States Army. This corrects that inequity. It is, in fact, the Army Reserve-National Guard Equity Reimbursement Act, and I strongly urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the legislation.
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Ronald Dellums
Democratic · California
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Discussing the Army Reserve-National Guard Equity Reimbursement Act.

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