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I'm glad you're asking me that. I met with Ms. Tining in June. I also had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Blackburn. This wasn't an official meeting, but we had a chance to chat during the Sunset Ceremony. I told him that the situation had changed in some respects, especially in the case of young soldiers returning from Afghanistan. They are given more attention, and a little more effort is made to provide them with counselling. However, the added attention doesn't change the fact that the soldiers must go through all the steps of the process. Identifying the young soldiers, monitoring them from the outset and providing them with treatment is fine and well, but if they are left to their own devices after six or eight months, if they are given a negative diagnosis, the effort will have been in vain.
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