My questions were specific to those professions. They do not match what's happening across the board; the numbers seem to skew very significantly in those particular professions.
If you go back to paragraph 2.50, you talk about motivators and the age groups that we'd like to motivate. For instance, 6% of young males have maybe some interest, but when you throw in the component of the potential of being offered free education, that jumps to some 30% who would consider a career. Obviously there's a motivator for people to go into the armed forces, to be trained in a career that will in the future provide tremendous benefits. So the motivators are there, but we don't have the specifics.
I just think it's pretty simple to connect the dots on that, and it's an issue that should be addressed, especially if we're going to take on--after last night's vote--war missions. We know that those categories, engineers and especially medical doctors....
I'd hate to think that we have this huge hole in the armed forces when it comes to doctors, when we're sending our soldiers into harm's way.