We can break that down into two parts. When people are released from the forces for medical reasons--or even other--they're usually put out without any medical follow-up. The door is closed and they're out. So it doesn't matter what has happened; once your release date is over, you're out. There is no transition set up for these people, so they go to whoever will take them. I just happen to be one doctor in particular. Because I'm a veteran, I take veterans in my practice, and it has become renowned.
I have been speaking about medical transitional services. We need to train more doctors to deal with these people with their special injuries. They might have post-traumatic stress disorder or they may be amputees. A lot of them have chronic pain from injuries. You have to understand that you don't even need to have been in a war to be broken in the military, because there are years of training. It's like being in a triathlon for your whole career. You're in it all the time for 20 years, because you're always training and hurting yourself.
Bill is a good example. He's a patient of mine, but he's also very broken from his varied career. He was in the army in Cyprus; he was with the airborne. He's had a lot of things bat him around. We even crossed paths in Somalia because we were on the same ship together. Bill is a good statement for all the things that can happen. But what I'm trying to say is there is no service set up for this for people leaving the forces.
One of the articles I did bring, which is in two languages, is an article I submitted to ON TRACK magazine. We'll pass it around later. It goes into more detail on this.
You can be a reserve force member who was a class C or class B when you were over in Afghanistan. Then you come back and go back to just being a class A, meeting on Tuesday nights. You may have some sort of injury. You're back in the provincial health care system and there's no follow-up. There's nobody checking up on these kids. Nobody knows what they're doing. I'm starting to pick up a few of these, but I'm not really getting a lot of them because they're lost.