Underway on a ship for allmost 10 years, working and sleeping and eating and working and sleeping and eating some more. 24 and carry on. Every meal was handed to me for almost a decade and I was told to scarf it down and return to the hole to fix whatever was broken. Its embarrasing to admit that I have trouble feeding myself properly, keeping food in the house, etc.
Anxiety was not even a word in Combat Arms and its the only word civilian doctors exposed to veterans know how to pronounce.
Yes, there was nerve gas training. Much more intensive than the tear gas/CS shed I ran boots thru for 6 months.
Over 20 years of hard charging with no mental support during or after. They get us young and full of adrenaline, let you play with monstrous machines with jet engines and cannons and machine guns. A military career is not a healthy thing in the long run.
Yeah, I was trying to grope around and figure out what ALL military, all branches, experience that could make 81% of them get sleep apnea at age 50.
It’s a VA 50% disability btw, and pays disability money IF AND ONLY IF there was evidence of sleep issues in your active duty records. That would make it service-connected. Most develop it after active duty so no $$. Social Security SSI called it a disability for many years and recently eliminated it.