There's a health screening. There's all kinds of legislation, human rights and all that. There's a health questionnaire, and for now it's based on the honesty of the person--i.e., “I have a peanut allergy.”
In fact, next week we are briefing all of our physicians' assistants who do the medicals across the country. They've asked me and my colleague, the addictions expert, to help them in dealing with someone who says he had a problem with alcohol a few years ago but is fine now. If you go to your civilian doctor, the civilian doctor sends a note that says he had the problem but he's fine now. So how do we help our colleagues with that?
Yes, there's a health screening. Mental health is part of health. There's no separation there. But it is difficult to predict behaviour with these screenings. There are no perfect screenings.The special forces do it; some of these organizations do it. How predictive is it? We debate. Having a personality profile to predict whether a soldier is going to do well or going to do poorly would not stand the test of human rights. A disease or a diagnosed illness is different. A personality profile or an IQ test, I don't think that would be effective. We haven't come up with any such test, and none of our allies have either.