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Jim Webb: “I say to the senior Senator that I have read the existing law, and the understanding I have of it is, at the discretion…”

On the recordMay 14, 2008
I say to the senior Senator that I have read the existing law, and the understanding I have of it is, at the discretion of a Service Secretary for military occupational specialities, that as they determine with a reenlistment, that transferability in increments would be allowed. That is in keeping with the statements of concern by the Senator from South Carolina about wanting to use transferability as a retention incentive. It is in existing law. It has not really been used extensively by the Service Secretaries. But I agree with the senior Senator that we should look for a way to continue that in our legislation as well.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia
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Discussing military occupational specialties and transferability as a retention incentive.

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