Thank you.
I want to talk about the pension system between the reservist and the regular soldier. I understand the system is quite different for reservists, for obvious reasons, but if a soldier is disabled on duty, say in Afghanistan, the compensation is the same. I know we've heard in previous hearings where a soldier, whether reservist or not, can serve while on pension. There's a little sort of sideshow going on--I don't want to minimalize this or anything--of trying to get a higher pension than one may be eligible for. It's causing a bit of a problem with the medical services, taking up a lot of time, because they can actually draw a pension while they're serving.
Is this influencing the reserve side as much as the regular forces side? Do you have any kind of insight in that regard? I know there's some suggestion that maybe we shouldn't have a pension plan activated until the last year of service, or something like that, to eliminate a lot of the backlog that the medical corps has to deal with, apparently on a daily basis.