I am certainly pleased that we are holding this important hearing today on the current status of the Transition Assistance Program.

I am pleased that we are holding this important hearing on the current status of the transition assistance program.

I wanted to just commend you as well, I know that you are focused on families.

the strength of our military lies in our people, and one of the most difficult issues that I think we always address come back to personnel.

What we know about scientific research and I think you mentioned this, General, that it takes about 16 years sometimes to be able to translate that into real practice and policies.

Our unwavering commitment is to our service members who are experiencing the challenge of multiple deployments.

We must continue to build on the hard work that has already been done to fill in any remaining gaps in scientific knowledge.

I think one of the concerns initially was whether or not we are focusing so much on do we have too many programs or are we not evaluating, but how--you know, what is it that we need to do to make certain that we have students who actually enter the STEM fields and who stay in the STEM fields?

the stigma issue is starting to become a little bit less of a problem.

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you as well for your interest and for holding this hearing on mental health research.

I am pleased that the subcommittee is continuing its attention on suicides in the military.