You're conditioned and trained to be war fighters, you fight their wars, and they send you on your way when your enlistment is up. You're not conditioned or trained on how to reacclimate yourself back into society and most spend the rest of their lives feeling like they no longer belong in society. If you top that with some of the things we've seen and/or done, you have a recipe for disaster without REAL help...And most were conditioned to compartmentalize and keep things to yourself out of fear of being looked down upon while you're in and just our of fear when you're out.

We have the greatest military in the world, but we severely lack in care and reacclimating our veterans back into society. We see it for every major war but we never learn.

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Posted by windshieldman

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Posted on 2/18/21 at 2:40 pm to bubba102105

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And most were conditioned to compartmentalize and keep things to yourself out of fear of being looked down upon while you're in and just our of fear when you're out.

By no means would I compare fire/ems to what people see in war but there's a problem in the fire service with this. Folks who have true PTSD and refuse to say anything due to being made fun of and laughed at. Had a doctor admit to me once that there's a huge problem of firefighters from my department that are on anti depressant and or anxiety medicine. Obviously completely different circumstances though than someone at war.

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Posted by VADawg

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Posted on 2/18/21 at 4:35 pm to bubba102105

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We have the greatest military in the world, but we severely lack in care and reacclimating our veterans back into society. We see it for every major war but we never learn.

Our politicians, especially democrats, don't care about any of this.

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