PTSD is the most common disability in VA due to waterboarding.
I wont try to knock anyone with a claim to PTSD, but lets get real. Soldiers come back from combat with PTSD. Anyone who was subject to being a POW could lay claim to PTSD. Going to Warner Springs and being waterboarded as part of the survival training (which was usually only one student per class with the rest of the class watching while the student still thought he was in the POW scenario) involved only a few minutes at most of enduring the ‘drowning sensation’ that makes people compliant rather than endure the process. There are many incentives to get a disability rating when you are discharged or retired from service and the more issues you can document, the better the disability pay. But I would say that claiming PTSD from going to SERE training is a real pu$$y kind of claim. JMO