Mr. Chair, once again, that's a good question. Those are red for a reason.
I'll start with pharmacists. That's the simplest to explain. Pharmacists in the civilian world get paid a lot of money. My strategy to attract them is to meet people before they've started their training to be pharmacists. When they're looking at that bow wave of loans and whatnot to get them through their training, then they're interested in subsidized education and a career in the forces. Once they've gone through and they're finished their accreditation and they now see a big salary ahead of them that will pay off whatever debts they may have, they're less interested. It's a bit more transactional. As anyone can see, there are lots of opportunities for pharmacists.
That's how I'm addressing that. I've assigned one officer whose sole job is to flit about the country seeking these people out and encouraging them to join and be pharmacists.
For LCIS tech, I think one of the largest challenges with that is the name, because everyone knows what... I've filled the infantry and the artillery with people wanting to be in the armoured corps, wanting to be combat engineers. I can't take any more in any province. I'm all full. But LCIS tech doesn't sound like an active combat job, when it really is. If they changed the name to land combat command technician or something, it might be more interesting. Plus, there are educational requirements in this trade that are higher than others.
So what the commander of the army has created is an army signals attraction team with their own vehicles, top-notch people in both their professional performance and appearance, with their vehicles, and they go from place to place, synchronized with my recruiting activities to show off and say this isn't a little computer guy somewhere in a back room. They'd be in a vehicle in the combat zone with antennas and things going on all around them.
That's what I'm doing to show that this particular trade is not a passive one in an office building.