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Have any of you ever met someone who claims PTSD for attention? Im sure a lot of us have, for example, I met a guy who claimed to have PTSD because he had to fill out his will before deployment. What is the most ridiculous ptsd explanation you have ever heard, and how did you respond?
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Yes, it's why I stay away from the VFW. They seem to have to one up each other and I just won't degrade my service by weaving tales. You know, I don't care what you did in the service, you served. The military isn't hollywood. Not everyone is special forces. Those that cooked my dinner, they were apart of it. I may have paved a runway that you ran missions out of. It's all important and doesn't need inflation and to inflate a story to PTSD levels just ratchets it up a bit.
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Anyone who's deployed to a combat zone is not the same person when they come back. I'm not saying they got PTSD, I'm saying they're not the same. I'm not the same as I was, I've never claimed PTSD. Am I normal? What's normal?
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SGM Mikel Dawson
SSG William Martin, I will make a little statement here: I have my strong faith in God, but I hate religion. One of the best church services I've ever been in was in sands of Kuwait by an Army Chaplin who gave a service which would work for everyone - plan and simple. It might not be so important what your wife thinks, but how do you feel inside?
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I have seen this over and over again. The worst case was Pre-Traumatic Stress. We had a Bradley driver that was assigned to a crew that was in some heavy fighting on their last deployment. The SFC Bradley Commander had a Silver Star. The PFC driver said the stories of war gave him PTSD. Once we found out we didn't know what to think. He still deployed. I ran into the Fobbits PTSD also. I would often run into guys with the "while you know how it was for us out there." I would ask them what they did. I would come to find out that they were a 42A assigned to the Division HQ at the VBC. That guy got taco bell and burger king everyday. I usually reply with something to the effect of this, "not really. I wasn't as bad ass as you and in all that danger. I was only an infantry squad leader in southern Baghdad. I have it easy compared to what you went through."
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SFC Mark Merino
The long lines.....the shortage of pickles......"the horror"........"the horror"........."the horror"
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SP5 Michael Rathbun
I was seriously traumatized by discovering an entire cockroach under the top crust of my slice of cherry pie in our mess hall at Ft Gordon.
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SP5 Michael Rathbun I am glad you are able to talk about that it now. No one should suffer like that.
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