I used to investigate guys like this, usually the first sign of a phony when the wave their service and PTSD in your face after screwing up big time.
I would like to hear more about his "service", get a FOIA on his DD214 and other military documents and let's just see how all this PTSD was caused.
I was Navy too and navy vets his age (our age) saw little of anything to cause PTSD, there are exceptions of course, SEAL teams, Navy pilots (God bless 'em, they truly are awesome) and associated combat units but in the big picture their numbers are quite small.
Bump to your post.
Bears repeating.
We do the annual benefit ride for the WV VA to raise money for them.
I have seen -real- war induced PTSD patients.
[they’re usually the quiet ones sitting away from the crowd..and for all that I’m a yappy little rip on *here*, in “real life” you’ll find *me* sitting quietly on the periphery of the crowd, too. it’s where I’m least uncomfortable and sensory overloaded]
Back in 1980, for the lack of an appropriate support group, I sat in on Viet Nam vets PTSD support groups.
I read all the books written by the guys who’d been there.
[kinda like a homework assignment]
Although our “initial cause” was not the same, the results were and I wept for them.
I’m no battlefield survivor or even a vet but the psychological mechanism behind PTSD is pretty much universal.
We identified with each other and vented together.
And, that is why we make that ride every year, rain or rain.
[yes, no matter what the forecaster says, it *always* rains on us...and we don’t care]