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<p>No such discussions have taken place. A Deployed Welfare Package is usually put
in place on operations to ensure Service personnel can stay in communications with
those at home. Due to the short duration of this operation, in lieu of a Deployed
Welfare Package, all of those deployed have been paid a Local Overseas Allowance.
This contributes towards the necessary additional local cost of day-to-day living
when Service personnel are required to serve overseas. In this deployment, this allowance
was paid in addition to that given to Service personnel who were living under 'field
conditions', where their food and accommodation charges are waived.</p>
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