Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you very much, Master Corporal Franklin and Master Corporal Mitic, for being with us today and for telling your stories.
I completely agree with you about the bureaucracy. As a retired member of the forces, and I was in Afghanistan in January 2007 with Roto 3, I understand the issues and the things you are going through and the bureaucracy you are facing. I faced bureaucracy, imagine, at the officer level, and now we are facing you, at your level.
I would like to ask you a couple of questions. You retired from the forces, and you are just in the process of retiring. How do the forces prepare you for your retirement? When I retired from the forces, and I was forced to retire because of the age limit and so on, it was one of the saddest days of my life.
To go from every day on the job in the military and now you are going into a completely different world...how do you think you are prepared for that? I'm not speaking about the services from Veterans Affairs, because you are able-bodied and you want to do something; you are young and you want to participate in society. How is DND or the army preparing you for this transition?
How were you prepared, and how are you getting prepared?