WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) today pressed the Trump administration about the impacts of extended deployments on military families back home.
Last month, Sens. Warner and Kainevisited USS Ford and met with sailors to discuss what effects the deployment had on them.
In a letter to Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Department of the Navy Acting Secretary Hung Cao, the senators wrote, "We write in response to growing public alarm related to the conditions of recent and ongoing military deployments. Combat deployments are always challenging in any number of ways - and extended deployments that keep servicememb...