Veterans Affairs committee  That's a tough question.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think you're doing your citizens well, very well, and I say this as a neutral observer. You have an outstanding CDS, chief of defence forces. I had the chance to watch two Canadian funerals and to see your Highway of Heroes. This is one of the things we could learn from Germany

Veterans Affairs committee  No, what I meant is that we have six military hospitals all over Germany, and two of them have branches or sections that deal with PTSD, mental health services.

Veterans Affairs committee  In this case, it is counted on the last income you receive. But the older a person gets, the less money they get. For example, if I'm going to retire and I'm going to get my 72%, and something happens to me before my wife dies, then she will get only 60% of my 72%.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We calculated this amount because children are extremely expensive.

Veterans Affairs committee  If I'm right, I think there are about five insurances. There is the health insurance. There is the nursing insurance, which is for when you are, for example, no longer able to do anything by yourself, when you need help from a nurse to be washed and so on. Then we have to pay t

Veterans Affairs committee  We are learning through the cases coming up. We are learning with the people who are being treated.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know, sir. I can't answer that question.

Veterans Affairs committee  This is the time when you are retired, when you are an old man or old woman--sorry for saying this--and it is then calculated on this principle. We base our system on the fact that if you are this age, you have your house, you have your flat, and your normal costs of living are n

Veterans Affairs committee  As a minimum, these people have to serve for 12 years, and they can apply for a governmental job. Then they have their three years' training, as I mentioned before, and they do another training period and can then go into the administrative work of the government, for example, or

Veterans Affairs committee  Let me make just one remark, if I may, sir. We thought about the same situation also in our system, but we did not carry through with this because we saw that military doctors were so over-stretched that we could not continue the relation. That is one of the reasons we did not

Veterans Affairs committee  He has to try the same exams and testing as any other civilian. But if he takes his exams and passes all his tests, he will go ahead of all the others.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, sir. It can be from three months up to three years, depending on the time he has served. But in any case, as I mentioned, this only applies if, for example, in his last month of service he was injured, and it would take—

Veterans Affairs committee  But if he is healthy and his time of duty ends, that's also when the relation with the doctor is broken off.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, sir.