Given the concerns that families of National Guard members have raised, would you support a policy of limiting overseas deployments for Guard and Reserve forces in terms both of the duration of overseas tours and the number of overseas tours during a given period of time?
Senator Byrd questions the Secretary about limiting deployment durations for Guard and Reserve forces.
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