the department of defense has, i believe, put 1.5 billion dollars toward tbi research. but not a lot to show for it. the other thing i will say is, you know, since 9/11 there's been a lot of legislative action that has been put into the pipeline and haven't -- having been the former senate sergeant at arms for four years i have a bit of an inside ball on that. but when you look at the amount of legislation that has been written to address tbi, moral injury, substance use disorder, ptsd, other combat related or deployment related issues that affect our military. very little has come at the other end. so, there needs to be and accountability for when this legislation and direction is given to the department to do acts, it's somebody following up to verify that that has been done? or has been done to the level of expectation? this is part of, i believe, the problem we've been experiencing on why we have not moved closer to the end zone on this. >> let's hear from john, he's and virginia. also on our line for veterans. you're on with frank larkin, go ahead, john. >> frank,

treatment, and that is why we treat such things very carefully, after all, like cooper's injuries and for tbihey are sometimes accompanied by very serious consequences and that is why i am very proud of our team that even after concussions we were able to treat more than a thousand soldiers and return them to the front after being treated and i would hope and, well, i still have this hope that in other areas, such work will also be established, in fact, please tell me , ms. oksano, how it seems to work, we sometimes just live in our country, sometimes there are fighters who are there somewhere, but the day before yesterday, it was like that. it seems that we included a fighter from the northern of seversky donets and workers-siversky donetsk and who just said if someone hears us, bring us five or six thermal imagers