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House votes to ensure troops' home time
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Aug 03, 2007 12:27pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, August 2, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The House voted Thursday to give U.S. troops guaranteed time at home between deployments to Iraq, the latest but assuredly not the last challenge to President Bush from Democrats determined to end an unpopular war.
Bush threatened to veto the measure, which passed on a vote of 229-194. Six Republicans broke ranks to support it and three more voted "present" rather than take a firm position.
The House measure would require that regular military units returning from the war receive at least as much time at home as they spent in Iraq. Reserve units would get a home stay three times as long as they spent in the war zone.
Under the Pentagon's current policy, active duty troops typically serve deployments of up to 15 months, with a year at home in between. National Guard and Reserve ground units generally can be called for as long as two years, to be followed by six years at home. |
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