Thank you very much for presenting at our committee today.
We were in Kandahar as a committee last year, and we saw the medical services there and talked to some of the social workers and doctors. I was certainly quite impressed with their commitment and the level of care they were able to provide in a very small and intense kind of environment.
One of the issues that I'm quite interested in is what happens at the forward operating bases. Our study is specifically around post-traumatic stress disorder, brain injuries, and mental health services. We did go up in a helicopter, but we didn't get all the way to the forward operating base; we had to come back because of the weather.
Can you tell us a little bit about that? What kinds of health services are available there under those kinds of conditions, and what would happen if someone exhibited signs of mental distress in one of the forward operating bases?