Thank you very much for being here today.
One of the recurring themes in the testimony we've heard is that a real barrier or challenge to veterans successfully finding employment in the civil service is that the training and credentials they receive in their military life don't transfer well to civilian life. That's not because the skills don't work or aren't a match for the work they're going to perform in a civilian job, including in the public service, but because the credentials just don't hook up and aren't recognized in civilian life.
As a department that is aggressively pursuing ensuring the hiring of veterans, as per the act, as you said, is there anything you do as a department to try to recognize military credentials within your own department and that you believe is exemplary but is not already being done by other departments, or do you encounter a challenge in recognizing military credentials for veterans who you may be trying to hire? You know they have the skills, but you're not able to recognize those credentials.