I don't have the historical data in front of me. We could certainly provide that to you.
In looking forward, regarding some of the things we've done to optimize the production of technicians within the Canadian Armed Forces, specific to the fighter force I would draw your attention to the maintenance initiative. We have 49 trainers now, through the maintenance contract I cited earlier. These individuals are helping to deliver a curriculum in 10 FTTS, which is the schoolhouse for our fighter force technicians. What we're seeing is that we're able to produce more technicians now through that training mill.
Further, if you go back into the enterprise, into the school in Borden, we were able to outsource some of our ACS, or aircraft structures technician training, to École nationale d'aérotechnique in St-Hubert. We've been able to run courses of a dozen, three times a year.
Consequently, we had a significant backlog of technicians two years ago. Through a couple of initiatives we've been able to push more of these technicians through the training mill, which means we'll have more on the flight line. At the end of the day, though, we still need to ensure that they get trained and experienced. As the Auditor General pointed out in the report, a portion of the technicians we currently have in 3 Wing and 4 Wing are obviously not experienced. They're going to have to get that in the years ahead.