Mr. Kieran Brennan:

I wish to elaborate on one aspect of the second question with my personal experience of it. I have a document with me. It is a directive signed by the then Minister for Defence, dated December 2008. It states that the first commander is operationally responsible for the performance of all functions assigned to the force. This was handed to me by the Chief of Staff. It lists exactly what the force commander is responsible for and what I am responsible for. I will not go into details because it is quite an expansive document. Critically, the first commander I was operating under in Chad had operational command. We had to obey all lawful orders issued by him and his subordinates. We had to carry out any instructions in relation to training operations. It is contained in the document. There were caveats that we have spoken about already. Dr. Berry is right. It is operationally responsible. They do not have operational command. I had command of the unit.