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were deployed to assist in relief efforts. Del. Sablan renewed the call for a separate
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National Guard unit due to budget constraints and concerns over whether the Northern Mariana Islands could form such a unit given the commonwealth's population of roughly 50,000 (about one-third the population of Guam).
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conduct a study regarding the feasibility of establishing a
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personnel already residing in Saipan) was feasible but required several major actions, including changes to the federal law that governs the
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