We've been advocates of that since we became aware of some of our members who were being released medically, because at times they could be there for two years.
I'll give you an example. A young lady was driving a vehicle, a small Jeep. There was a bus and suicide bomber arrived there and blew the whole thing up and killed the person right beside her, broke both her wrists and her back, but she got out, got her rifleāand they also killed 30 other people around there. But she came back and went through a lot of treatment, but back at her unit, they didn't know what to do with her. They can't be employed or anything. That's when we started thinking, This is where VAC should come in. The person should be starting on their training. They should have an account, and the transition should start there. They're going to be in the armed forces for probably a year or two.
People just releasing normally or having no illnesses should still have a VAC account. They should have a card, and when they release they can put that in their drawer if necessary. For other ones with what we would not call severe disabilities, it should be the same thing, a staged release, so they can actually start their training for the transition courses. They can actually start there in the military, because the military doesn't really have any work for them. So they could be working on that and release out.
That's why we're saying staging it out. But when people leave, they should have their VAC account, card in hand, and carry on from there.