First off, I have a friend who did 3 tours in the sand box... came back, remains a detective to this day. I served.. living my life. Retired from the job. He asked me ,what is up with this PTSD, are the new kids all a bunch of wusses these days? Makes you wonder if this whole PTSD thing is just another way to peddle narcotics!
I’m a combat vet, did two tours in the sandbox, and retired from the Army. We had a lot of training on PTSD, have friends with it, and have it myself. I find your comment incredibly ignorant.
Vietnam Vets have a rate of PTSD of about 12% , while OIF/OEF veterans show a rate of about 20%. Why the increase?. There are many hypothesis but the two I think account for this increase is that more service members are surviving horrific wounds(losing two or three limbs) and these wars are the first long wars to be fought by the first divorce generation. One of many risk factors for developing PTSD is a dysfunctional childhood and therefor many of theses vets don’t have the strong childhood foundation that is created by being raised by loving, married, parents.