Ultimately, Ulmer believes, it'll take a change of mindset among military leaders before stress becomes a high-profile issue. Ninety percent of discussions about the future force have to do with acquisition of weapon systems, dispersed information, data processing and structure. Service members and their leaders need to get over denying and ignoring stress. A lot of people try to push away dealing with stress. We're trying to reinforce that it's not weak to ask for help.
Help is there.
We staff for it. We anticipate it. They need to use it so we can return folks to a ready state so they can perform their mission.