Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all. Your testimony is honestly overpowering to me.
I'm going to ask this, first of all, of the gentlemen. I hear the term "war" used often, yet it doesn't exist anymore, according to legislation. That is my understanding, yet as a civilian I would absolutely put what you just described to me in that category. I sense that you as well would put it in that category.
Concerning these responsibilities of duty and unlimited liability and being required as volunteers to obey the chain of command and all of these things, are they somehow defined differently for the circumstances in which you found yourselves in Afghanistan versus previous war scenarios?