There are the capability milestones, about which I'm sure General Howard will be happy to talk to you in a broad way. Then there's what happens with the soldiers actually on the ground.
The important thing to remember is that while they're struggling with illiteracy, so are our adversaries. They are drawing from the same manpower pool, in a sense. They are in the same playing field, and what we're trying to do is raise a professional army that has to meet all the international standards. In other words, it's like a kid who has to write an exam while the other kid doesn't. It clearly means the one who doesn't can follow any rules he wants. That's the situation we're in.
We are putting in boundaries—making these folks encadrés—so that they're inside a milieu that respects international norms. At least the mentors whom we have deployed in Kandahar province, who live every day, day in and day out, with these guys in combat outposts where you might find six Canadian soldiers and sixty Afghan soldiers, live exactly the same life. It can't help but rub off on their Afghan counterparts.
I'll just finish by saying that illiteracy doesn't equal stupidity; it's not an equation. These are very smart people.