National Defence committee  I think it's a fair comment. The health and prevention piece falls under General Jaeger. She has a whole new directorate of health for self-protection. If you look at the food we are providing—and I have been there myself—you'll see we actually provide great food in the mission.

National Defence committee  I'm okay. It's actually a pretty big team that supports the people.

National Defence committee  Plus, to be fair, we've also added to the screening. When I went to my medical a couple of weeks ago, the doctor asked me a number of questions--buried in there--that I didn't know had to do with my mental health. There's a danger in saying it's psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers—that's the team.

National Defence committee  We could provide it to you.

National Defence committee  At this point, it would be very important to define PTSD. Can you do so, Ms. Jaeger?

National Defence committee  The issue becomes one...and we've talked about this issue, looking at it as a soldier. I would not recommend you repeat what I say, but I look at it from a credit card point of view. Why me, not you? I may have a higher level of credit than you, and it affects me, or it could be the incident or it could be the situation.

National Defence committee  I'm sorry.

National Defence committee  I'll provide the upfront piece from a unit point of view, and then I'll turn it over to Brigadier-General Jaeger to talk about the medical aspects. Once the soldiers get off the ground, they've come through the third-location decompression in Cyprus. We need to stress that in many cases we're not picking up everybody in Cyprus.

National Defence committee  Non-battle deaths are deaths of individuals who are not killed actually in battle or in action. They are individuals who may have fallen, as was mentioned earlier, in a road accident. That's how the two are defined.

National Defence committee  Oh, you want the number. Sorry. The total since 2002 through to 2007 for non-battle deaths is eight, while the number of those killed in action is 66. Remember, this is up to December 31, 2007. Again, if I can reiterate, because I have a hard time saying this, I go with the chief, in many cases, to the repatriations.

National Defence committee  It's across the country.

National Defence committee  That's a fair question. I don't have that here. I just got most of this today, since the policy changed today. We looked at October, and the stats came here together. But I'm sure you could find the information and look at it. The only caution I would give—and I knew there'd probably be a question about how this relates to U.S. or U.K. stats—is we have to be very clear that we have to look at the situation they're in.

National Defence committee  If I could expand on that, Mr. Chair, both General Jaeger and I realize that we need to get more people into Petawawa. We have heard that message loud and clear. We try not to attach to it, but clearly, we need to put an OTSSC-like thing in Petawawa as quickly as possible, and that's what we're working on right now—and in Gagetown.

National Defence committee  But is it perfect? No. Is it better than it was? Yes. We know where we're going and what we have to do.

National Defence committee  They've all been adopted because people have been told to do them. I went through the last committee, where I made the comment...people said we're bureaucrats at the end of the day, but we're not, we're leaders at the end of the day. We provide direction and people agree.