Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here today and for sharing, especially Vicky Cox.
Ms. Cox, thank you for your service and for sharing. I know that it's traumatic to keep sharing your story, but it's really important that we hear from you and that you put your story on the record so we can learn from it and move forward.
I'm sorry that you had to start today by listening to a bunch of political wrangling. You deserve to have respect when you're here and you deserve to be listened to.
I want to go back to the story you were just telling in the last segment. Just to make sure I understand it correctly, you worked with airplanes—CF-18s, I think—and you came into contact with a lot of hazardous materials with your work.
You've since found that all of the conditions that could be attributed to the substances you worked with might be affecting your health, and you're having difficulty getting recognition for that. Would you explain in a little more detail what that means and where you think the support should come from? How should we change the system to support people like you?