Yes, sir. Again, Mr. Chair, absolutely.
Indeed, a lot of the research is focusing on those younger men and women who have served in operations over these past few decades. Those veterans from World War II and the Korean War, we consider them to be the traditional veterans. Those veterans who served in the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and this past decade and a half, are a lot of the focus of the studies.
It's interesting when you consider that of the veterans who come to Veterans Affairs, only about 25% of our clientele come to us while they're still in uniform. There are 25% who come within two years after they've handed in their ID card and taken off the uniform. As I mentioned in my notes, it's 50% from year 2 out to year 60.
In some cases, there's a latency. Sometimes there's a latency with regard to a mental health injury that pops up as a result of another event. Sometimes it's a musculoskeletal injury that may not have been documented. With the fact that the person might have been an infantryman or a bosun aboard a ship, or working with aircraft, there's a musculoskeletal injury that can then come s to the surface.
That's what Michel and his team have been working on. How do we look at the entire sailor, soldier, airman's and woman's service, as part of their evidence—for example, an infantryman might have bad knees, bad hips, a bad back, and so on—in order to address their needs more quickly within the department?