Yes.
I am speaking about training the medical side. Our medics should receive women's health training. They are supporting our female members. They are their first line. Our doctors also should be receiving women's health.... If we don't want to allocate resources to that, provide a women's health specialist. Some bases used to have a women's health nurse practitioner. A lot of them don't have that anymore. That would be an alternative. If you aren't comfortable having certain people ask those types of questions, allocate someone to do it.
We don't train our leaders in how to support their female members either. They won't know how to support a female who is, maybe, experiencing postpartum depression when returning back to duty. Leadership should notice when their members aren't doing well. However, if they don't know the questions to ask, they won't ask. How do we support a female who is...?
Another aspect is RED-S, which is relative energy deficiency. Females are at a greater risk of experiencing this. For anyone who has a daughter or who has played sports, this is a common issue brought up in sports right now around girls and women athletes.
Actually, female service members are in the same category. They're at high risk for this. It increases their risk of repetitive strain injuries, including stress fractures. A pelvic stress fracture or a hip stress fracture impacts females at a higher rate in basic training and throughout their careers. If we're not asking the question, “Hey, is your menstrual cycle regular?”.... That question is actually too late. We see the physiology actually change before that symptom arises to indicate RED-S is possible. Irregular menstrual cycles also have a risk of increased injury. It also impacts reproductive health.