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Sen. Maria Cantwell was at Fort Lewis last week at a deployment fair for soldiers from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. The event wasn’t open to the media, but it apparently made quite an impression on the senator. She has sent letters to Secretary of the Army Pete Geren and First Lady Michelle Obama (both attached).
And here’s the release her office put out:
Cantwell: Fort Lewis Program Can to Be a Model for How Military Sends Soldiers to War
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent letters to Secretary of the Army, Pete Geren, and First Lady Michelle Obama urging the U.S. Army to incorporate elements of the new Fort Lewis Deployment Day Fair program on a national scale. During the Memorial Day recess, Cantwell attended the Deployment Day Fair at Fort Lewis. This new, unique program provides soldiers and families with resources and information on housing, finances, legal affairs, educational opportunities, emotional counseling, and other quality-of-life issues that come to the fore when troops leave home.
"I believe Fort Lewis’ Deployment Fairs have the potential to be a model for how the military sends soldiers to war, and looks after the families those soldiers leave behind," Cantwell said today. "We owe our service members deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous assignments overseas, and their families, all the information and support they need to get through these difficult months of separation."
