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Steadfast wrote:One thing that will happen is that for every US Soldier that served in Iraq or Afg - there will be an 10 fold increase of those claiming service there.
That has already started...
Yes it has and as we have already discussed, all of the "Never been off the FOB" weenies will all come down with PTSD and never work again.
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"will"? I guess you didn't hear about the AF predator drivers out in vegas claiming PTSD b/c of the horrific duty they had driving airplanes and dropping the occasional missile. That shit is already happening...
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
goon175 wrote:"will"? I guess you didn't hear about the AF predator drivers out in vegas claiming PTSD b/c of the horrific duty they had driving airplanes and dropping the occasional missile. That shit is already happening...
True. Sadly true.
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goon175 wrote:"will"? I guess you didn't hear about the AF predator drivers out in vegas claiming PTSD b/c of the horrific duty they had driving airplanes and dropping the occasional missile. That shit is already happening...
True. Sadly true.
You gotta be s***ing me! And someone at VA is accepting this with a straight face?
Steadfast wrote:One thing that will happen is that for every US Soldier that served in Iraq or Afg - there will be an 10 fold increase of those claiming service there.
That has already started...
Yes it has and as we have already discussed, all of the "Never been off the FOB" weenies will all come down with PTSD and never work again.
Yeah I run into them almost every day. I shit you not we have a guy who was a court reporter in the Marines who has a claim for PTSD the he claims he recieved from having to take notes on other people's noncombat cases. So far he has been denied.
I also ran into a chick who is 50% service connected for PTSD for a mortar round that landed on the FOB, and I quote "5 to 600 meters away"
HHC 1/75 mtrs Apr 2000- dec 2003
hang it, FIRE!!!!
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I work with a Navy Reservist who I believe was suffering from PTSD before his first deployment. He broke down at work one day crying and worried that he was going to be taken prisoner and "ass raped". I suppose it is in his nature to be a worrier, but I always found it odd that he was more concerned about sexual assault then IEDs or snipers.
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And someone at VA is accepting this with a straight face?
And you know what the issue is...the G.O.'s and CSM's are in a tizzy about about "no stigma", and by-golly if you say a guy is full of shit or a pussy, well then you are just perpetuating the stigma. We had to watch a video, where they had different people talking about how they dealt with there problems, you know, showing there is no stigma. One of them was this african-american chick who was talking about how a soldier called her a racist, and that so shook her that she got PTSD from it. I'm sorry, thats not PTSD, that's weak-sauce syndrome. There ARE soldiers with PTSD, and they DO need to feel that it is ok to go get help, but it's all these fucks out there who are straight douche bags who go see the counselors and stuff, and the guys that need the help don't want to be associated with the douche bags.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
And someone at VA is accepting this with a straight face?
And you know what the issue is...the G.O.'s and CSM's are in a tizzy about about "no stigma", and by-golly if you say a guy is full of shit or a pussy, well then you are just perpetuating the stigma. We had to watch a video, where they had different people talking about how they dealt with there problems, you know, showing there is no stigma. One of them was this african-american chick who was talking about how a soldier called her a racist, and that so shook her that she got PTSD from it. I'm sorry, thats not PTSD, that's weak-sauce syndrome. There ARE soldiers with PTSD, and they DO need to feel that it is ok to go get help, but it's all these fucks out there who are straight douche bags who go see the counselors and stuff, and the guys that need the help don't want to be associated with the douche bags.
Goon be careful you are starting to sound like me.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Flesh Thorn wrote:I work with a Navy Reservist who I believe was suffering from PTSD before his first deployment. He broke down at work one day crying and worried that he was going to be taken prisoner and "ass raped".
Doesnt want to be ass raped AND joined the Navy???
1.7% of males in the VA system reported being man raped
HHC 1/75 mtrs Apr 2000- dec 2003
hang it, FIRE!!!!
"I feel sorry for anyone who is not an alcoholic---How would you like to wake up every moring & know that is the best you will feel all day?" W.C. Fields
1st Ranger Bn...We may not go down in history but we will go down on your sister