We have a world-class facility in Kandahar right now, which is a multinational role three medical facility. It is multinational but Canadian led, and I have visited it. It's really outstanding. It's really great.
We're able to stabilize the patients, and it's not only Canadians; it's Afghan national police, our allies, and so on. It's really multinational. They are really stabilizing the patients, and if they need to be brought back, then we go to Landstuhl. In Landstuhl, again, that's a great hospital and we are getting great care out of it. And if they have to be brought back to Canada, then obviously we go into our own system here.
So we are learning a great deal out of this. I think we have a great facility in the role three and the advanced surgical centre that we have here in our own capability and inventory. We need more of these, and that was going to be my point to the chief. If we are to have two theatres, we need more of these and we need more specialists to be able to sustain that. That is really a cornerstone to our capabilities, from the Canadian Forces perspective.
But the whole process of repatriating both the remains and the casualties is really fundamental, and we are learning a great deal out of this. We've had doctrine in the past--I think that emanated from the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War--but things we have not practised to that extent. So we are learning the lessons.
I want to establish a personnel support group that really focuses on what we are learning from a personnel perspective: how can we best support our people in theatre? And it's not only military; it's also, as I said, the CFPSA civilians, CANCAP civilians, and others who are in that theatre. How can we best support them, and when they come back to Canada, how can we best reintegrate those people into Canada? That's quite a shock. They left as young soldiers and they're coming back as veterans, and the reintegration is something very fundamental.
So I want to make sure, from an operational level, strategic level, lessons learned on how we best support our people, that I'm quite involved in the process. I will be working with chief military personnel to establish something that is really learning from what we're seeing now.