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Article: ARMY WILL LIMIT TIME OVERSEAS FOR ACTIVE DUTY, RESERVE UNITS.(FRONT)

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The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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March 6, 2000
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A new Army policy that limits overseas duty to six months for members of the National Guard and Reserve also will apply to active duty soldiers, a spokesman said Sunday.

Reservists currently are deployed abroad for up to nine months - the maximum allowed by federal law. Active duty units normally rotate after six months, but the service has set no official time limit until now.

Spokesman Col. Edwin Veiga said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki will formally disclose the policy Tuesday.

To underscore the significance of the new policy for the Army's reservists, Maj. Gen. Roger C. Schultz, director of the Army National Guard, and Maj. Gen. ...

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