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Originally Posted by Tiger815  Not to hijack the thread but, PTSD seems to me to be an epidemic these days. One has to wonder how the WWII generation was ever able to come home from their experience and lead the greatest wave of accomplishment in history, what with all their undiagnosed PTSD.
Apparently now over 70% of our troops being deployed to Iraq and Afganistan are coming home diagnosed with PTSD. While I don't discount the sacrfice todays soldiers are making, the fact is, statistically their chances of getting hurt or killed are very, very slim. Compare that to bomber crews in WWII, where statistically you're odds of surviving a full tour were very near zero and many, many units had over 100% casualties (in shear numbers, not that every original guy was wounded or killed). How is it that the vast majority of these guys were able to come home after enduring these conditions for YEARS, adjust and live long and prosperous lives, while today it seems a few months overseas (or one scary incident) with a very remote possibilty of being killed sets a person up for a lifetime disablity? I do believe there is such a thing a PTSD, but I also believe there is such a thing as "Job Security" for mental health "experts" and progress is being made on one front.
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I think the terms thrown out there too much as well. While I don't doubt alot of soldiers who leave the base may have it, the thing that gets me is when soldiers and marines who don't leave the base and any airmen period who claim PTSD are full of it and cheapen the term. Hearing mortors go off every few days and screaming PTSD is crap. So is claiming PTSD when landing a plane where everyone more or less walks away from.