[Inflexible Six]

Originally Posted by Badger52

The above has been my general opinion, or was. I have a younger friend (diagnosed DS vet, career NCO) for whom that was the culminating "event" in their career. Taking the question a bit further, is it perhaps less-related to career vs. one-termer and more to "how soon post-event is the individual dumped from the support structure you describe?

The behaviors you describe are seen by me in the aforementioned friend. The intolerance for the petty bullshit is on their sleeve, which leads to acting out (as viewed by those who take pains to wrap themselves in the cloak of civility). The other issue I hear is that the burden or flaw, and the resentment, is directed inward. It's not, "these civilians don't understand me" but rather, "I just can't understand these civilians."

By the way, in the handful of such folks I know, the number one thing, in day to day living, that seems to get a fist bashing the table and the blue words filling the air is people not keeping their word, or a promise, or an appointment. Come to think about it, I guess that's me in a mirror too sometimes...

All valid points. If it were up to me, I'd come up with a new name for the issues we've been discussing, because I don't think that partuclar aspect that we've been discussing is PTSD. I think is much more universal and common for a returning warfighter to feel that he is now different, especially among his civilian friends and aquaintances.