Family Flashbacks

>>32354027

Suffering from PTSD myself, your story sounds very familiar. Getting triggered means my thoughts focus on particular events, and i start annyoing everyone around me with stories. Kinda creepy as i can't do anything against it.

I never understood that "you lose interest in guns when you have to kill people" thing tho, maybe it's because he was in Vietnam and somehow knew that his cause was not just. My interest in guns really just started after i had to shoot at people, intending to kill them as they wanted to kill me.

>>32354027
>>32354528
>PTSD
The most overhyped and overdiagnosed "disorder" next to ADHD. Being a childish pussy who is unwilling to cope and adapt to situations isn't a disease of the brain, but of the soul. Spiritual weakness is the worst stain that a man can put on his character.

people get PTSD from tripping on a rock in Afghanistan, nobody cares about this fake illness anymore

>>32354566
calm your fucking tits captain autismo

noone ever said it's a super special disease, it's just a normal reaction to certain situations like being raped or being deployed to a warzone

>>32354566
"disease of the soul" & "spiritual weakness" lol christ fag detected. Also nice b8

>>32354585
>>32354566
same fagging pretty hard rn

>>32354608
More than 1 person on the board is capable of having that opinion

>>32354627
Yeah, but this kind of stupid is one of kind.

>>32354566
>>32354585


calm your tits retards, most people who claim to have ptsd for stupid reasons are just shitbags in it for the bennies.

there are legitimate reasons one could suffer from ptsd, such as getting a leg blown off and watching the upper half of their buddy die

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>>32354027
>He started talking about setting up listening posts on the Ho Chi Minh trail and how they'd stay there for days without moving so they could listen for enemy transports and patrols. They had to calculate how fast they were moving and stuff like that so they could drop the bombs. After a couple days they'd get picked up by a helicopter and do it all over again.

Euhm, dude, the trail is in Laos. If he's not bullshitting or using the term loosely, it's likely that your uncle was in MAC-V SOG or at the very least in a LRRP?

You realize that those guys are /k/'s heroes, right?

>>32354911
>it's likely that your uncle was in MAC-V SOG or at the very least in a LRRP?

that or he was a CIA spook

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>>32354911
He doesn't really talk much about Nam so I'm not really sure. The most I've heard about his time there directly from him was yesterday. I've heard some second hand stories that he told to other family members. I don't try to pry much because it seems like a touchy subject. If he was spec ops the reason he doesn't talk about it much is because he's not supposed to.

>>32355193
nah, you know full well /k/ has a hard on for MACV-SOG and you're just bullshitting us

the SF guys from that era are willing to talk about pretty much everything by now, nobody cares if they say they were in laos

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>>32355217

I'm the original MAC-V SOG suggestion guy, but I do think a lot of vets do not like to talk about that shit. It's usually due to survivor's guilt. A fuckton of their mates died back there, so it's not a happy subject.

Still, the guy should try to find out what unit he was in. Surely someone in the family knows?

>>32355260
yeah but "the reason he doesn't talk about it much is because he's not supposed to" is bs

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>>32355313

Not disputing that.

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>>32355217
>>32355260
I have no reason to lie. I could care less what kids on a Chinese basket weaving forum think about my uncle.

Like I said, he doesn't really talk about it much at all. Yesterday was the first time he's talked directly to me about it. I only really see him a couple times of year at family togethers like yesterday. All I really know for sure was he was in around 68'-69' and he has a heart condition from agent orange exposure. All else I really have is another story but this one is second hand because he told it to my grandfather who told it to my dad. So by the time it got to me important details may have been left out.

Anyhow apparently some kid used to come into their base or camp I don't know. He'd sell them eggs or something so he would come on a regular basis. One day while my uncle was taking a shit the kid came to sell the eggs but the VC must have strapped a bomb to him because the kid blew up and they ambushed the base. Remember now my uncle was taking a shit when this happened so he has no idea what the fuck is going on. Just that there was an explosion and bunch of gunfire. When he got back he found his buddy was blown to pieces from the suicide bomb. Apparently he snapped killed some people because he didn't know who was who. Sorry that story was pretty vague unfortunately but it's all I really have. I have a feeling shit like that is why he's so ill tempered and quiet about Vietnam.