Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming today, Admiral. It's a delight to see you again.
Sir, you started off your career as a reservist in 1977. I remember what those days were like because I started in 1978. What is your view of the reserves now? We've been very integrated. The reserves have very easily plugged into regular force units, certainly most recently on deployment to Afghanistan, but prior to that on other missions in Bosnia and on the smaller missions, UN missions, and African missions that we've sent people on abroad.
What's your view of making sure that level of training, that level of awareness, and that ability to plug and play, if you want to use that term, between the reserves and the regular force remains at a high state, or as high as it can, given the current circumstances?
As you and I both remember, back in the day—three decades-plus—there were clear divisions. And now everything has changed, and there's a very close level of cooperation. People come back and forth, and there's a lot of component transferring into the regular forces, as you did in the early eighties.