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billet

noun as in housing

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Hundreds of them marched — marched — down from Northern California to this new billet.

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The question for residents there – two dozen families and a few billeted soldiers – is what impact Republican candidate Trump or his Democratic rival Kamala Harris might have on Israel’s interests in the region now.

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Some terminated their service unimpressively, an example being former President George W. Bush, who trained as a pilot but never saw combat and whose service ended in a cushy Air National Guard billet.

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“We flew them in and moved them into billets,” he says.

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The troops were billeted with members of the clan, before turning on their hosts on 13 February.

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