National Defence committee  No, it does not.

National Defence committee  Ever since we've collected statistics, I think the average runs about 80%.

National Defence committee  At least 80% disease and non-battle injury compared to battle injury. People still get flu, they still get colds, or sprain their ankle when playing floor hockey. They do those kinds of things, even in war zones, but that's disease and non-battle injury. Yes, we would have a lot

National Defence committee  We are always looking out for physicians who meet the qualifications. We take foreign graduates, but we have an evaluation process, which, again, is the civilian evaluation process. We don't do it ourselves. Most of what we do in the realm of health professionals is always partne

National Defence committee  We deploy preventative medicine technicians on all of our missions. Other than looking out for mosquitoes, they check the water and watch out for sanitation issues, and all those things. They look for any place where we might have trouble on a regular basis.

National Defence committee  As I said in my opening comments, we would first need to know what the mission was: where is it, what are we being asked to do, how big is it, and all of those kinds of things. So it depends. Are our allies there? Do they have resources there? On each and every one would we have

National Defence committee  It isn't just us. There's always an operational planning process that goes on. It's the same for the combat arms. The army, navy, and air force go through the same planning process. The support logistics community goes through the same process. These missions are all analyzed by

National Defence committee  It is $80,000 for two years, and $225,000 for four years for physicians.

National Defence committee  It varies.

National Defence committee  It depends on whether you come in as an experienced general practitioner or a specialist. That is the base pay if you're coming right out of medical school or residency with no experience.

National Defence committee  No, not directly.

National Defence committee  The one our soldiers have accessed is in Landstuhl, Germany, but they have them on many of their large army bases, large navy bases, air force bases, and their Veterans Affairs Canada administration. Basically it depends on the size of the location where they have them. I saw a m

National Defence committee  I had the opportunity to visit Kandahar in May, and also Landstuhl, Germany, so I've seen the facilities in both places. The surgeon general will be going in the new year. At the beginning of the evacuation chain, our facility in Kandahar may be a plywood hospital, but I can tel

National Defence committee  That General Cox.

National Defence committee  Master Corporal Franklin, who you've also seen, is a solider in that unit, a medic, and the unit took it upon themselves to have a fundraising event to raise some money for this. I was told the other day that the unofficial total is $80,000 that they've raised for that organizati