Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you both for coming.
Colonel, with this committee, I was fortunate to get a tour of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center down in the United States. I happen to have been a patient there back in 1976, many years ago.
When we deal with soldiers who are injured, who may have lost a limb, we talk a lot about the loss of the social support that they had and their ability to lose their comrades. One of the things that we learned and saw is that the U.S. integrates those soldiers and keeps them within the service for longer because they can provide a service.
I'm just wondering if you could comment on that and how you see that as a benefit.