He also serves on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, which helps oversee the care of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

他还在退伍军人事物委员会任职，帮助监督对从伊拉克和阿富汗斯坦返回的士兵的照料情况。

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The all-party defence committee said the soldiers needed more helicopters and better-protected patrol vehicles to shield them from roadside bombs.

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In the first decade after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 the committee found 29 missing soldiers - and 22 of them decided to return home, while seven opted to stay in Afghanistan, RIA reports.

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Back outside the Committee for Soldiers' Mothers, soldier Sergei is helped into an ambulance - he is off to hospital now to recover from his ordeal.

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