Thanks for that, Mike.
The DART commitment is one of our highest readiness elements throughout the Canadian Armed Forces. It has associated with it a contingency plan that is rehearsed over the course of any given year in conjunction with our inter-agency partners, the whole-of-government effect.
Personnel are identified and equipment is identified and pooled at our strategic airhead in Trenton. Materiels are constantly refreshed so that particular capability can go out the door on very short notices to move. It's a 12-hours' notice to move for the reconnaissance elements and the humanitarian assistance and relief teams or the advance parties of the DART itself, and the main body is on 48-hours' notice to move at any given time.
These elements are not necessarily only dedicated to the DART; they have other tasks they do, but they will exercise that contingency at least once a year in an exercise called Ready Renaissance. You see, the name of the operation is Operation Renaissance. It's associated with that contingency plan.
That's the collective framework within which they operate. In terms of an individual preparation, each of those individuals who are identified for the DART goes through weapons, first aid, training, and mental assessment that will allow them to understand that going into disaster areas has an effect on them. Those are their normal readiness levels. Once they are activated, depending on the time that they have available to them, they will get more in-depth culture awareness and country studies of the particular area that they're going to be engaged in.