Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to all of our guests here today.
I have a certain number of questions I want to ask, but I seem to be all over the place here in my own mind. I'll try to get to some of the points.
When we started this study as a committee I had high hopes, great expectations, that we would uncover many things going on with women veterans across this country, and many of the challenges they face transitioning to civilian life and to jobs they want to pursue, and that we would also identify many of the opportunities that some of you talk about and we could make sure that we got that information communicated to these people.
We often heard that they weren't aware of some of the opportunities and challenges. That's why my expectation is, my hope is, that we're going to be able to go down that road, that we're going to present a study that's going to be filled with recommendations like the one Joseph just made about connecting military and civilian job skill sets so that it doesn't become a problem in the future, and that we can, hopefully with your assistance, provide solutions for many of these veterans.
First of all, Michael and Patricia, in your experience, what are the key areas that women veterans tend to gravitate towards in their military experience?
Patricia, you mentioned they want to do business or they focus on entrepreneurship. Do you want to comment on that?