To put the delay in seeking care into more perspective, of the people who are screened during their pre-deployment screening as possibly having an OSI, over 50% of those people are already receiving care for it. If you go back to 2000 or thereabouts, the average time between the person starting to have symptoms of PTSD or operational stress to getting treatment was five to six years. Now we have that time down to months and in some cases even weeks from the time a person experiences symptoms to when they actually start getting treatment.
On February 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.