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Ruark wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:11 pm

Ruark wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 4:27 pm Except he never spent 7 years in combat, never mind "splattering people to pieces" he deployed ONCE Nov. 16, 2010 to June 14, 2011. in a typical "short" tour Marine Corps does.

Sorry, my bad. I read that somewhere - a "machine gunner with 7 tours in Afghanistan." Thanks.

No worries it was how the story was written

Ruark wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 4:27 pm On the other hand, 7 years of combat duty splattering people to pieces (he was a Marine machine gunner) can do strange things to you.....

Except he never spent 7 years in combat, never mind "splattering people to pieces" he deployed ONCE Nov. 16, 2010 to June 14, 2011. in a typical "short" tour Marine Corps does.

And regardless of what folks at the VFW tell on a Friday night, while some may have seen "significant" fighting it is not 24/7 months long engagements of WWII

Of course we have people hearing a rocket drop someplace on a compound claiming (and being awarded) PTSD claim so the Claim of PTSD really is not telling at all. It could be real, or it could be the very common fraud that is the current version of the older "unspecified back pain" from yesteryears vets fraud claims.