That's a good question.
I'm not sure what the barrier is.
Well, I am sure I can guess. The barrier, to me, is that the Department of National Defence didn't make a decision back in 1990, 1992 or 1993 to recognize our service. That's the barrier right there. If the recommendation had to come from the Department of National Defence and had been given to the Minister of National Defence at the time, maybe it would have already been done and we wouldn't be sitting here rehashing what our Korean brothers and sisters had to do back in the fifties. Now we're sitting here.
What happens down the road when other groups show up here? What's going to happen in the future when the guys come back from Ukraine? We're just rehashing it. A policy should be put out there, one we can all turn around, read and understand. The way Mike was explaining battle honours, the procedures are already set up. You can tweak that and end up having the exact same thing to denote what type of service someone had. Did he have a special duty area, a special duty service or duty operator....?
I'm getting mixed up here, guys. I'm getting excited.
It can be done. To me, it starts with DND. They need to produce the policy directives on how they come out with these decisions.