Mr. John Murray:

We are very similar to ONE except that with the UN service one is qualified to be a member with a tour of duty overseas. I stepped off the pitch in the Defence Forces last year and I was one of the older generation in that I got to run to the finish line at 60 years old. However, the younger generation is retiring after 21 years and may have done, perhaps, one or two missions overseas. When I was overseas there were 760 troops. There was a great deal of sport and camaraderie over there, but now the young lad is on his iPhone. The troops do not gel as much or the friendship is not there as much. They are fairly isolated in their daily jobs compared with what we did, which was more outdoors and more adventurous with more patrols. The overseas experience now is very contained. We have a challenge, which is to get involved with the troops before they travel, explain who we are and what our experience was, to keep that relationship going while they are overseas and to have a briefing on their experience when they come back. We have challenges all the time. We will rise to that challenge, get new membership and go their way in how our association should be in the future to make it attractive to them. It is a challenge for us, but we are up for it.