I believe that as soon as you put your hand up, your career is pretty much toast. Maybe it's not so much the case now, but it definitely was when Stu was serving. You become “that guy”.
I think what makes a really good soldier is the pride attached to what they do. As soon as you take that away, you truly have stripped them of everything important to them.
I think that you do have to be deployable, absolutely, but I do believe that there's a responsibility on the part of the employer, and that would be DND, to help you with that, right? If you step up and....
I do think it's changing. We had reason to cross paths about a year ago with someone who was an officer in Stuart's regiment, and he offered his condolences. He knew Stuart. It meant the world to us. It just stripped away so much negative stuff that we'd been feeling. I think that just as there is a responsibility on the part of the serving member to do everything they can to be deployable and well and valuable and all of that, there is an equal responsibility on the part of the military to help them when it kind of goes sideways.