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2 INDIVIDUALS COLLECTING "PTSD" 50% VA DISABILITY NO DEPLOYMENT'S, NO COMBAT? 1 HAS A DESERT STORM GA STATE LICENSE PLATE?
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Are you a Psychologist or Psychiatrist, educated, trained, and licensed to diagnose PTSD?
Are you a VA claims adjustor trained and certified to rate VA disabilities?
If the answer to either of those is "yes" then you already know the answer.
If the answer to both of those is "no" then you aren't qualified to make that judgement and should probably focus on being a productive and contributing member of society who learns how to type without typing IN ALL CAPS
Are you a VA claims adjustor trained and certified to rate VA disabilities?
If the answer to either of those is "yes" then you already know the answer.
If the answer to both of those is "no" then you aren't qualified to make that judgement and should probably focus on being a productive and contributing member of society who learns how to type without typing IN ALL CAPS
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SSG Edward Tilton
He does NOT have to be qualified to make a complaint. It is the job of the investigator to determine its validity. He should complain to the VA, They are the victim
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I love how the theme of the responses is fuck off, mind your own business, how do you know they don't have PTSD?
My wife was an unemployment claims examiner for a while for federal employees. Let me tell you some types of stories where people claim PTSD:
Police officer is responding to a case where a little girl is kidnapped and raped repeatedly then killed. The LEO who responds is the first on the scene
A Sheriff Deputy is responding to a situation where a sexual predator is attempting to rape a woman in her 90s, the assailant tries to kill her, stabs her from her neck through her chest, her partner shoots him and the assailant dies on top of her.
An EMT responds to a burn scenario, one of the patients is burned so badly their mouth has melted. The EMT says it looks like when you open a warm grilled cheese sandwich.
These are all true stories and they are not people in combat. Soldiers have PTSD from rollovers at NTC. On my last rotation in NTC we lost two Soldiers who were decapitated by a cable during a recovery operation. A vehicle went over a cliff in the night, the XO and the LT said let it stay until day. The CO said let's recover it now. The wrecker sent a cable over the edge to recover the vehicle. The OPFOR came cruising around a corner in a soft top vehicle and were decapitated on the spot. The people who watched the decapitation and responded first, the wrecker driver who was conducting operations, the Commander who order the recovery operations, and the officers who failed to object to the operation, all feel responsible. They all have recurring guilt about that. Every single NTC rotation we lose multiple Soldiers in these kinds of accidents, it's rare to have an NTC rotation without a death. You have a better chance of deploying and returning without a death.
The point is, going to a combat zone is not the qualifying incident for PTSD. You don't get to be the gatekeeper for PTSD because you were in another country during a time of hostility.
My wife was an unemployment claims examiner for a while for federal employees. Let me tell you some types of stories where people claim PTSD:
Police officer is responding to a case where a little girl is kidnapped and raped repeatedly then killed. The LEO who responds is the first on the scene
A Sheriff Deputy is responding to a situation where a sexual predator is attempting to rape a woman in her 90s, the assailant tries to kill her, stabs her from her neck through her chest, her partner shoots him and the assailant dies on top of her.
An EMT responds to a burn scenario, one of the patients is burned so badly their mouth has melted. The EMT says it looks like when you open a warm grilled cheese sandwich.
These are all true stories and they are not people in combat. Soldiers have PTSD from rollovers at NTC. On my last rotation in NTC we lost two Soldiers who were decapitated by a cable during a recovery operation. A vehicle went over a cliff in the night, the XO and the LT said let it stay until day. The CO said let's recover it now. The wrecker sent a cable over the edge to recover the vehicle. The OPFOR came cruising around a corner in a soft top vehicle and were decapitated on the spot. The people who watched the decapitation and responded first, the wrecker driver who was conducting operations, the Commander who order the recovery operations, and the officers who failed to object to the operation, all feel responsible. They all have recurring guilt about that. Every single NTC rotation we lose multiple Soldiers in these kinds of accidents, it's rare to have an NTC rotation without a death. You have a better chance of deploying and returning without a death.
The point is, going to a combat zone is not the qualifying incident for PTSD. You don't get to be the gatekeeper for PTSD because you were in another country during a time of hostility.
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SPC Gary C.
SFC (Join to see) I was a member of the Opfor for 4 years, and I don't remember a rotation that someone didn't get killed or injured. Anything from helicopters crashing to a soldier being cut in half from being between two M1's, to vehicles driving into wadies. I saw a guy get messed up by walking into the back blast from a dragon just as the gunner fired it.
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Who are you to determine who should or shouldn't get disability???
You don't have to be in combat to suffer PTSD. Hence the "traumatic" in Post trauma stress disorder. Not only is there PTSD but MST (Military Sexual Trauma).
Mind your own business.
You don't have to be in combat to suffer PTSD. Hence the "traumatic" in Post trauma stress disorder. Not only is there PTSD but MST (Military Sexual Trauma).
Mind your own business.
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