I have to be cognizant of my age and relative experience in the army versus that of some of the young men and women who are coming in the door now. It's naive to think that everybody coming in the door is going to say, “I was born to be a soldier and I'm going to serve for 35 years and I'm going to make a career out of this.” You need to keep young people today continuously engaged; you need to challenge them. Because we spend a great deal of time and effort recruiting and training them, the last thing we want to do is to see somebody head for the door.
Challenging training means multiple things. It doesn't mean just physically, but also intellectually, challenging. It means giving them an opportunity to develop as a whole person, with professional military education, but also through developing their citizenship skills. At the end of the day, it's really about keeping that person engaged. It's a word that we have chosen specifically because it resonates with the young people, not necessarily with the way we perceive it.