I'm told that for every frontline infantry soldier, the ones that actually face danger & fight the enemy, there are 8 people employed to support them.
As a highly experienced & trained manager, this doesn't seem very efficient to me. But what the heck do I know . . . .
I'm also told that every member of the armed forces is trained to fight, I was told that by an ex regimental quartermaster, who spent his entire military career in the back office of a warehouse.
I'm simply wondering out loud how a warehouseman aquires PTSD. I get that he was a soldier, I don't get how he majikly aquired PTSD while driving a forklift & unloading the supplies for the frontline troopers that actually do that which we wrongly perceive all soldiers do.
Maybe the journalist has failed in getting the whole story over. Maybe he really has suffered a horrifically traumatic experience that now manifests itself in the form of deep seated PTSD. Maybe he just swinging the lead in the vain hope that mentioning keywords like "soldier", "service" & "I done my duty" will get him off a crime.
What the heck do I know?
One of my bestest mates has a deep seated PTSD & it is often all we can manage to keep him from shooting himself. The IRA strapped him to a chair in the late 70's when he was just 19 & poked his left eyeball out.
But what the heck do I know about PTSD & why you might be a victim of it.