Thank you, Mariane.
As Mariane said, we are part of the third-location decompression. When I was there, they would come from Afghanistan in groups of 150 at a time. When they first come they don't want to be there; they're angry and they just want to go home. But by the end they're very grateful that they've had a chance to decompress before going home.
Our role is just to be there. When we were there we made quite a few referrals to the on-site psychologist, who was able to set the soldiers up--from Cyprus--with psychological appointments in Canada for them and their families. Before they even come home they have the appointments set up. That's one preventative thing.
We do an OSISS briefing every second day while we're there. They just have fun. When they come in they're tired the first day and they're usually all in bed by seven or eight o'clock at night. The next morning they have a couple of hours of briefing, and they have the CFPSA staff there. They have all sorts of rendezvous and things for them to attend. There's some down time as well.
But they absolutely come to talk to us, and we're quite busy when we're on the third-location decompression. It's quite rewarding to be able to make referrals for them back in Canada and to follow up once we get home.