Thank you, Chairman.
To the witnesses, thank you so much for coming in today.
This is to follow up on Mr. Norlock's question. I want to repeat this quote again, because I'm reading it over in my mind and trying to kind of break it down. It's this quote:
Combat exposure and exposure to atrocities are risk factors for post-deployment mental illness. Deployment, however, accounts for relatively little of the overall burden of mental disorders in the CAF. Military personnel experience nearly all the non-operational risks and vulnerabilities to mental illness as their civilian counterparts.
I'm trying to get at the heart of what is being expressed in this quote from 2012. I'm not sure if it is to say that this is a constant challenge, which I agree with, but what we've seen coming out of Afghanistan is not unusual and might well be in line with what we're seeing in the population at large.