My Nonprofit Reviews

I started life as a plain vanilla, ass in the grass Grunt in Viet Nam
1971. In between wars I spent almost 4 years as a Washington DC Police
Officer. While not necessarily suicidal, and resisting Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder as a diagnosis simply because I do not feel it addresses
the core issues of "Trigger Pullers and First Responders!" I feel it
is difficult if not impossible to replicate, let alone understand and
or,empathize with the stress plus, life and death decision making
regardless if you're an ER Doctor, a Beat Cop or a Grunt going through a
door in Afghanistan. All military missions are important. There is a
difference between reacting to threats and actively seeking humans to
kill on a daily basis. In many respects the "Trigger Puller" whether
she is a pilot or, he's an 18 year old fresh out of high school without
whiskers, each goes through a decision making process not experienced by
most of the US population. While I feel the idea of "Moral Injury" is
far closer than PTSD, I've chatted up a couple friends who've"Seen the
Elephant" and "Culpability" feels a more apt description. Whether or not
one calls in the airstrike, the artillery mission, drops the bomb,
pulls the lanyard or
the trigger you're wearing the uniform and walking
through that village that has been hit. Their eyes say it all! You
don't care, at the time... The eyes of both the living and the dead
along with the sights, sounds, and smells don't go away with medication.
PTSD can come from falling off a ladder, I suspect it's very a human
response to near death experiences. It's very different than a heavily
armed group of teenagers planning, preparing and carrying out ambushes
to kill every heavily armed teenagers from the opposing side. Win, lose
or draw, those activities tend to alter one's views of life and death.
"Warrior Camp" brings together folks
that banged up other humans and are trying to make peace with that.
We're all different however; there's a "Crossing the Rubicon" feeling
folks experience when they are actively engaged in seeking other humans
to do harm to! Warrior Camp felt far different than the previous
PTSD/Counseling I experienced to date. With many different traumas
under the PTSD diagnosis combined with treating war Veterans (in many
instances) as a single entity. Daily life outside "the wire" is
different from life inside the wire. The Horses know that
instinctively, its a strange moment when you're standing with a big
powerful animal that was as concerned with what I might do to him as I
was concerned with what he might do to me. That was a small epiphany
that opened up the rest of Camp.
I strongly urge any Trigger Puller or First Responder looking down the
rabbit hole to get a hold of TRR, ASAP!! The rest of y'all, please give
what you can. Recent events are having catastrophic results on First
Responders, They're going to need a lot of help!!