The situation has improved. Gains are always tenuous, because every day brings you a new challenge.
We have equipment. Without being able to quantify where we were at in 2001 and where we're at now, what I should really do is to emphasize that we're trying to recover all the equipment from Afghanistan--the mission transition task force is doing that--and bringing it back, refurbishing it as required, doing the checks, and getting that equipment ready to go. That's going to take us about a year. It's a process, in the military parlance, of reloading the army, getting it ready to go again. So we're working that piece.
At the same time, readiness to us is an ongoing issue, because every day there may be an officer or an NCO who is retiring, somebody else who going needs to be promoted, or somebody else who has to be trained to take their place. It's a continuous process for which we have coined the term “perpetual training”.
So as you move across the army and you look at all the various brigades, not everybody is training at the same high level on a daily basis. We have good equipment now. We have soldiers and we're intensely proud of what they have achieved, but we're only as good as today when we start again.
Frankly, we can be informed and proud of our past, but we have to face the challenges that we have. And we have significant readiness and training challenges to move forward to adapt the army to whatever reset the government wants us to do in the future.