[Drew68]

He was enlisted in the army. Never saw combat.

Yep. I've seen plenty of vets with PTSD who never left the United States.

I guess boot camp is pretty traumatic these days.

[Celerity]

He used to send me these articles from others stationed there it was “the worst base in the world” and the C.O. just wasn’t fair or something.

I don’t know. I tuned it out. It must take 10 times as much to push the pussy out of a modern 18 year old recruit than ever before.

The base shrink recommended he play FPS video games to calm his nerves. And the VA would provide.