Military fatalities...

[byron12]

Originally Posted by PhiSig1071

It's a shame, but it's true. One of my ex girlfriends was an MP that had done a tour in Iraq, and she had issues with PTSD, and I think this is almost a form of that.

Personally, I think the main reason that we have problems like this and PTSD is because of the rapid transition soldiers have now that they didn't in the past. Now, and in Vietnam, soldiers go rather quickly from the front line home without adequate time to adjust. In WWII it took months for soldiers to get home, instead of going right from combat to a helicopter ride to a rear base and immediately onto a jet home they had to march back from the front line, wait to get billeted on a ship, then spend a few weeks on a ship coming home. That gave them time to readjust from a combat mindset to a non-combat mindset, instead of having to do it almost virtually overnight.

You also have to keep in mind they didn't diagnose any one with ptsd back then that doesn't mean it didn't exist. Hell the first documented motorcycle hooligans were a bunch of WWII vets that got kicked out the AMA for raising to much hell at AMA events...