[Lumper20]

The VA did not change PTSD requirements for many years. Hell even in the late 1990’s-2000 one needed a PH, A valor award, A CIB or a combat action ribbon. Today it is a damn joke. Actual physical disability is like workers comp. No problem whether it is peace or war. An injury is an injury. Korea and peacetime duty was a damn joke in 73-74 except for the only one US company on the DMZ.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I hate to say it but I'm starting to think that all your “SF/MACVSOG” blather was gained from dime store novels. If you don't know that the VA awards disability for illnesses, diseases and conditions acquired while in the service or within a year of discharge, or aggravated by your time in, then you know very little about that process. It's not just “PTSD” or injuries that will gain you a disability from the VA, and they don't have to come from hand-to-hand fighting with Victor Charlie. I don't think you'd know a Montagnard from a Mercury Mariner.