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Which War Would Result In The Most Severe PTSD For Soldiers?
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:03 pm
Watching a little Civil War stuff on AHC so, yeah.
Civil War? WWI or II? Vietnam? Korea? Gulf or current war in the ME?
The Gulf and ME wars now seem like they should have less than the wars before them but I'm not a soldier.
Anyone want to start the debate?
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:04 pm to Sao
WW1 and it isn't even close.
Edit: should add a reason why heh.
Main point is before this, warfare was completely different. WW1 had things happen that no man could have been prepared for. On mobile and can't type too much, but really WW1 changed everything. The shelling alone made many men snap.
Edit: should add a reason why heh.
Main point is before this, warfare was completely different. WW1 had things happen that no man could have been prepared for. On mobile and can't type too much, but really WW1 changed everything. The shelling alone made many men snap.
This post was edited on 5/3/17 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:04 pm to Sao
People are pussies now
Vietnam was pretty bad, sneaky asians hiding in tunnels, randomly killing you, had to suck
Vietnam was pretty bad, sneaky asians hiding in tunnels, randomly killing you, had to suck
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:05 pm to Sao
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Which War Would Result In The Most Severe PTSD For Soldiers?
Civil War. Killing your own countrymen would have to be more traumatic.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:05 pm to Sao
Civil War or World War II in my non-expert opinion based on the era and how the wars were fought.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:05 pm to AnActualFan
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WW1 and it isn't even close.
More so than WW2 in the pacific?
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:05 pm to AnActualFan
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WW1 and it isn't even close.
This. /Thread
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:06 pm to Sao
WWI I'd think but I guess it depends on just exactly where you were.
Pre-gunpowder battles with hand to hand combat. might be pretty traumatizing
Pre-gunpowder battles with hand to hand combat. might be pretty traumatizing
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:07 pm to Sao
WWI.. birth of modern warfare without modern medicine
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:08 pm to FunroePete
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More so than WW2 in the pacific?
Yes. the WWII PTO was bad but trench warfare was really bad.
This post was edited on 5/3/17 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:08 pm to biglego
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Pre-gunpowder battles with hand to hand combat. might be pretty traumatizing
I was also thinking through the medical element as well. How simply being wounded could be a death sentence. It's a lot to think about.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:09 pm to Sao
The one that instills the constant fear of death. My guess would be Vietnam.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:09 pm to Sao
Yeah bc seeing your buddy blown up in 2005 is so much different than 1967.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:10 pm to Sao
Not say this is the answer but there was a really interesting piece on just how brutal the Korean War was.
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On a per-capita basis, the Korean War was one of the deadliest wars in modern history, especially for the civilian population of North Korea. The scale of the devastation shocked and disgusted the American military personnel who witnessed it, including some who had fought in the most horrific battles of World War II.
World War II was by far the bloodiest war in history. Estimates of the death toll range from 60 million to more than 85 million, with some suggesting that the number is actually even higher and that 50 million civilians may have perished in China alone. Even the lower estimates would account for roughly three percent of the world’s estimated population of 2.3 billion in 1940.
These are staggering numbers, and the death rate during the Korean War was comparable to what occurred in the hardest hit countries of World War II.
In fact, by the end of the war, the United States and its allies had dropped more bombs on the Korean Peninsula, the overwhelming majority of them on North Korea, than they had in the entire Pacific Theater of World War II.
“The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II.”
This post was edited on 5/3/17 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:11 pm to Sao
WWI trenches and poisonous gas and fighting that close day after day. Had to be the worst.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:13 pm to Sao
PTSD is caused by combat action, so, the war that caused the most PTSD is the one in which US military personnel spent the most days in combat. From what I understand, that war is the Vietnam War. US ground combat personnel in Vietnam saw more days in combat in one year than did most US ground combat personnel during the whole of WW2.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:14 pm to FunroePete
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More so than WW2 in the pacific?
Yes, but the fact that it is true doesn't detract from WW2s horrors in the Pacific or Stalingrad in anyway.
This post was edited on 5/3/17 at 6:16 pm
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