I think militaries have always had the adage of realistic training, of exposing people to stress. I think we are doing that to the best of our abilities. There's the road to mental readiness program. Also, all the stress awareness, coping, and performance psychology stuff starts in basic training and then is throughout one's career.
At the same time, once you know the mission, you can do mission-specific training. It's a very dynamic field. As we learned more about what was going on in Afghanistan, we were able to set up realistic scenarios in Wainwright and places like that. For IED scenarios that occurred in theatre, you adapted those immediately to the training. Nobody's going to argue with the adage of realistic training within human rights and within all of those things, but it's very hard to prepare somebody for the death of their best buddy. It's very hard for somebody to prepare for actually being blown up or having the head of your friend fly up and land in your lap. You can try your best. We're using more simulation, more talking about where we will end up going next, and we're getting as much as intelligence as we can from the other countries that are in there.
Absolutely, realistic training helps. It doesn't absolutely guarantee prevention, but as part of training, you do need to stress the body, stress the mind, and recover.