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National Guard Deployments More Frequent, But Shorter

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More than 34 hundred Wisconsin National Guard soldiers will be heading overseas next year most to Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s the largest mobilization of the guard since World War II. What happens to these weekend warriors when they get back depends a lot on the economy and their current employees. Gil Halsted reports…

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