So the timely opening of Brunswick and Hinesville will make a dramatic improvement in the accessibility for veterans in this region?

does that beg the question that the need is a clinic, an outpatient clinic specifically for those PTSD, TBI, and other related mental health services?

Thirty to 90 minutes is great progress compared to three hospitals and no clinics, which was the case just a few years ago.

We need another VA hospital in Atlanta in order to provide timely and quality health care for the steadily increasing number of patients.

I would like to personally ask if you would make sure that you reach out to the banks and the development community who have put in over $400 million in investments in the Hinesville-Fort Stewart area in anticipation of that combat team…

I want to thank the Technical College and their President for all their cooperation and hospitality in allowing us to hold this hearing today.

If I am not mistaken, not only is the return rate now at 35 percent and improving, but a lot of those people are returning actually to the theater of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq.

I was struck, when I went through the center at Fort Stewart last year, by the number of women that were going through the Warrior Transition Center.

I am going to attempt to see to it that whenever we have a DOD facility and a veterans facility in the same city, that they can replicate what has been done in Augusta, Georgia.

I always brag about what you all do there. It is nothing short of remarkable.

I think Secretary Shinseki has been very impressed with what has happened there and I think the results bear out that this is an important thing to cover.

It appeared to me there were a disproportionate number of women in the center versus the ratio in the service.