Great article @stay-in-the-gray! I am also a vet (Army) who dealt with PTSD after deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. 100% agree with everything in this post man. We are being sold short at every turn by the community that is supposed to support us. I ended up giving up on the VA after 4 and 5 hours to be seen. Went out of pocket for my own therapy. Lost a lot of good buds to suicide a few years after we returned. It's disgusting that warriors like this aren't given basic care while the big wigs at the VA are raking in 6 figure checks.
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Narconaught, let me start with saying , Welcome home brother. I am so glad that you get it. We have shared shoes. You are exactly who I am trying to bring into the #vetsconnect community. I am not eligible for VA benefits due to an event that happened when I about three months short of separation. (that story will soon be a post on #vetsconnect). My Lt. from my last deployment was an elementary school teacher before the Corps, he was a mustanger too so he had a connection with the enlisted guys that most officers could never understand. He commited suicide a few years after separation. That was about a year after my own, very serious, not just a "cry for help" but never the less unsuccessful attempt to end the suffering by my own hand. We rely on each other to stay alive in combat and war zones. Life is a war zone, every day is a battle, therefore we should still be able to rely on each other to stay alive. The general public can not even begin to understand the mind of a combat veteran. Only other vets can understand. I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know there. I'm trying to say Thank you, beyond words, I appreciate your support for what I want to do. Ill give you a Hooah!!. and a Semper fi. Soldiers and Marines, Sailors and Airmen are all family. We are like brothers and sisters that are born from the same mother (The united States that we put our life on the line for) but we have different fathers, being the branch that we were trained by ,educated by and served in. And to anyone else that reads this, I have all the love and respect for our Allied cousins from the militaries of Canada, Australia, The UK and all other friendlies.
Semper Fi and Semper Steem