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Roland Burris: “The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimated that each additional soldier deployed to Afghanistan will cost $1…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimated that each additional soldier deployed to Afghanistan will cost $1 million. Is this estimate accurate?
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Roland Burris
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Asking about the financial implications of deploying more soldiers to Afghanistan.

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