The managed readiness plan is key to our force generation capability, for us to train our folks before they are ready to answer the government's call to deploy anywhere in Canada or the world, either as part of NATO or, as we see right now, in Iraq. Really, it consists of 3 Wing being the main force-generating wing for the air task force 1501 and 1502; we have about 250 folks that we train. We give them all their basic soldier skills training. As well, we spend a huge amount of time training them to deploy.
They are aware of the lessons learned from the latest missions we conducted around the world, so they have the best information and learn from all lessons learned that we have to go forward. This allows us to have a force that is ready and already pre-trained to deploy at the government's will to answer any crisis or mission the government wants us to participate in. The benefit to our personnel is that they have on-time readiness training. When they are trained, they are on the hook for one year to deploy and to be ready to deploy anywhere around the world or in Canada. Also, after their mandate they have a pause period—I guess a downtime—when they can continue working in their specific professions on their specific technical skills. It's a bit of a downtime at home.