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A loyal reader sent this interesting little story tidbit along. She searched it out because her “eagle eye” husband spotted Beau Biden in some camera shots of THE Obama-Biden Express (train ride) the other day.
No two ways about it, this is pretty special treatment.
The aforementioned reader writes:
“The only person I know who’s gotten to come home early from a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan is a friend from church: his wife (also Air Force) was diagnosed with breast cancer a month or so before he was due to come back and they brought him home early.
Soldiers are missing the birth of their kids and Beau Biden gets to come home for a “special assignment” at the Pentagon?”
2009 February 7
I wonder if he was even charged leave for coming home. All other Soldiers are charged leave for coming home, and they don’t get to pick and choose the date they want to come home. Mission dictates everything over there. If he is still doing his special duty at the pentagon, he needs to hurry back and do his duty and quit hidding out. This is B.S. that he got to come back at all. You are so right that people are missing their kids graduations, births, and etc…but he gets to come home because of who his Dad is.