I have mixed feelings about this video. I’m a female war vet. I slept in either a tent, cold ground and/or my hummer for one full year in Iraq. I feared for my life every single day of that year. I was honorably discharged out of the military in 2005 after serving for 5 years.
I knew something was wrong when I returned home. I couldn’t sleep and when I did I would have nightmares. I completely disconnected from anything that would remind me of the military because I would have flashbacks. Independence Day was the worse day of the year for me because I have the worse flashbacks when I heard fireworks. I filed for PTSD around the time this video was made. The VA denied me saying that I would have to prove I was in combat…..(just like the individual in this video). Apparently getting mortared and shot at is not considered "combat" to the VA.