Remember, when you speak to the issue of the gap with the baby boomers, it's across all rank levels. Baby boomers are not just parliamentarians or senior people in the Canadian Forces. It's different here, but in the Canadian Forces it covers the entire swath of the Canadian Forces. It is a bubble that we have in the Canadian Forces that is moving this way. We're about a third of the way through that challenge. That also has--coming back to the question posed here--been the second point that has exacerbated the problem.
The first is the operational tempo, the second is the baby boomer piece, and the third was retention. I've been here to talk about retention--retention is down to 7.2%. So as you have all these three factors working against you, how do you ensure that you have trained and qualified personnel in the Canadian Forces at all rank levels? So we're about a third of the way through the baby boomer kind of bubble. How we're doing it is by recruiting people up front.
The second question becomes the answer to what we're discussing here: it's by hiring people on class B positions while we wait for people to kind of move ahead to fill up the ranks.