On the recordJuly 19, 2011
One of the biggest challenges that many guardsmen have is the length of deployment, in that there are many soldiers in the Guard who would be happy to do backfill tours of 3 to 6 months voluntarily.
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Senator Brown highlights deployment length as a challenge for guardsmen.
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