I'll speak first to the idea of the single incident. There should be a mechanism in place to figure out which med techs, the corporals, master corporals, and sergeants in the medical service, are actually on site when something happens. That would be one way of tracking that. You may have a potential down the road, as this person was involved.
It is the same with the small-level hospital sites that we set up, the medical reporting centres, and the field hospitals when we're out on exercise. Having an idea of who was actually out there and then tracking that back, having some mechanism of knowing that an incident occurred, someone was injured, that these medical techs, people in the medical service, were handling it or were there and present, could be one way of generating that kind of material.
With regard to the sustained, long-term form, the wear-and-tear form of an operational stress injury, I don't think there is any real way of tracking that, because there are situations that don't bother us.
In my case, it's more the knowledge of soldiers that I recruited, trained, or commanded who were injured. That's what tore me down. How do you record that? There's no mechanism to go I was involved in training this person and they went off a year later and got hurt. I know this, and I turn around and start having intense guilt moments.
There's no way of recording that in any form within the Canadian Forces. It became a situation where I was questioned as to whether it was really that bad. “Well, yes. It damn well was that bad.”