DATELINE: Aug. 27, 1990
As the Pentagon weighed the possibility of sending up to 250,000 servicemen into the Mideast, defense credit unions began scrambling to help members prepare for deployment.
Officials at the Defense Credit Union Council and the nation's two largest defense CUs acknowledged there is not much credit unions can do, once members begin exercises in Saudi Arabia or the Persian Gulf. But with uncertainty over deployed servicemen's futures credit unions are doing as much as possible to assure that members' finances are in order before they leave the country.
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