Mr. Chair, it's throughout the chain of command. I have met with soldiers who feel that the senior non-commissioned officers do not treat these things with the care they deserve, and I've also heard at the very top, very senior officers saying that a few slip through the cracks. So I would submit that it is endemic throughout the culture as it stands right now. Now, that's not to blame everybody for it, but I think that if the chain of command took ownership of those types of injuries, the entire chain of command would change.
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