I'll repeat what Dawn said to you, that it's nice to see you back in a different.... You all look better, anyway, when you're back here. I know we had a chance to see Colonel Lavoie--he had just come in off the front when he gave us a briefing at that time. I think General Grant was back and forth.
The topic we're interested in is how the soldiers are treated, not only when they come off the battlefield, but also at home when they come into various situations in the family, whether there's family breakup, and how the family is treated versus how the soldier is treated, and how the reservist is treated differently from a regular soldier, and so on. When Colonel Lavoie was there he was very action oriented, period. He not only had people who were killed and wounded, but he probably had quite a few people who had post-traumatic syndrome at some point after those particular battles.
Now there's a different mental outlook there, I would think. I was wondering if any of you are in a position to judge whether it was any tougher when you were there in a more action-oriented arena than it is now, when you are worried about roadside bombs. Fewer people are getting killed, but are fewer people being affected? Is there less treatment required now from when you were there? Do you have any statistics to compare between the two situations?