How has your military service affected what you enjoy or avoid for entertainment, like TV, movies and other media?

How fake tv or movie firearms are. Or not necessarily the gun but how to actor uses it or what they do with it. Tick tock timer grenades, racking the slide on a weapon without a shell ejecting, cocking the hammer on a pistol that doesn't have an external hammer. Stuff like that drives me crazy.

Any and all mention or sight of Jane Fonda!

I was caught in a few anti American demonstrations in Germany. Of course I was in uniform, so I have this huge fear of crowds. At first, when I came home, I really didn't understand what was happening. Ptsd was not really known. It was just you being called mentally unstable. Being a single parent, my fear was if they used that to take my daughter away. So it was years before I understood what was going on. And even longer to get help. In the meantime, I missed a lot of my daughters sports because of crowds. We didn't go to movies because I would start freaking out as soon as the lights went down. Couldn't go grocery shopping when I got paid, because that's the same time everyone got paid and the store would be packed. My daughter and I can laugh at it now. You know how many times I filled up my grocery cart and just had to leave because I would have to stand in a long line surrounded by other shoppers? And I know I missed out on a lot of events with my daughter. There's no way I can ever get those moments again. It took years of therapy, but I can go to movies and shop whenever.

I was a driver for our MAJ during alerts, in the advance party. We were the lead vehicle. Still in Germany. Autobahn is a bitch when you are only allowed to drive as slow as we were. But it can produce really, really awful accident scenes. We were stuck behind one for hours. When you have an accident the involved cars from the outside left lane, (no speed limit), it can create a very long scene. We had a lot of time inching up to try to figure out what was involved in the accident. one time, looked at the median, and a head was staring at me. I think, its eyes were mostly closed, but I seemed like it was watching me. It's amazing what your mind will do to prove what you are looking at, isn't what you are looking at. But it was. So I'm still having problems taking really long drives on highways were there is a lot of speeding. But, meds work wonders. And I pretty much get to decide what time of day I drive so I do a lot of night driving.