I know, I’ve engaged a couple of them. One claimed to be a multiple tour combat vet that does not have it. PTSD depends on the stressing event and the person affected.
Constantly fearing for your life and seeing up front and close someones brains chasing a bullet as it leaves the skull really isn’t a memory a person wants to reminisce over just before going to sleep.
The vet’s brain is forever rewired, something that just cannot be helped. The self medication with drugs and/or alcohol only worsens it, something else that just cannot be helped.
I had a coworker die at a distant vet hospital last year. No notices in the paper, no funeral. Just buried in a vets grave yard like the subject of this article. So sad. And the man was very proud of his military service.
“Constantly fearing for your life”
Psychopaths have no fear. None.
Ever.
And like Sociopaths they have no human empathy.
They make great war heroes.
Neither gets PTSD because they don’t experience psychological trauma.
Of course then there are the combat vets that were never really under serious threat.