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Ben Nelson: I appreciate your concern about the use of the stop-loss program because I too think that, while it's a legal way of…

On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
I appreciate your concern about the use of the stop-loss program because I too think that, while it's a legal way of returning soldiers, it's unpopular and over time and other multiple deployments, lengthy deployments, extensions, will erode support for the military internally from where it's most important.
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Ben Nelson
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Jan 23, 2007

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Discussing the stop-loss program's impact on military support.

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