Thank you very much, Colonel, for appearing in front of our committee.
You mentioned that your PTSD and depression, after returning from your deployment in Rwanda, went undiagnosed.
I know for sure, and I went through these things, that there are pre-deployment checkups and post-deployment checkups for Canadian armed forces members to try to curtail the development of combat-sustained injuries, including mental injuries. On top of this, when you are promoted from one rank to another, at least in the regular force, you need to go through a medical checkup, at least at the officer level, and when you leave, you have another medical checkup.
How are these different? I understand, and I personally experienced it, that when you are deployed, the pre-deployment checkup is very thorough and very well done. Post-deployment is less so. When it comes to a release from deployment checkup there is none or it's quite non-existent.
I just retired in 2009. Is there any difference in this one, or do you observe the same things I observed?