U.S. military challenges Marine's story of PTSD

There is a problem with this because you do not have to kill someone to end up with PTSD and you do not have to even see someone die to end up with PTSD. This is a fact and you need only visit a neighborhood after a natural disaster to find that out. There has also been a history of veterans after they worked in the motor pool after bombs have blown up ending up with PTSD, just as there has been other people never in combat with PTSD.

U.S. military challenges Marine's story of PTSD
by Elizabeth Dunbar, Minnesota Public Radio
October 8, 2009


St. Paul, Minn. — Military officials released a statement Thursday saying a Minnesota Marine diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder never engaged in combat while deployed to Iraq.

Pvt. Travis Hafterson's mother, Jamie Hafterson, has spoken publicly about her son's diagnosis and raised questions about whether he will receive adequate treatment at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Her son, who went AWOL, turned himself in to Fort Snelling last week before going to the Marine base.

Based on medical assessments in Minnesota, a judge had ordered Hafterson to be committed to Regions Hospital in St. Paul for treatment of his mental illness. Instead, the military held Hafterson at Fort Snelling before taking him to Camp Lejeune.

Jamie Hafterson has said her son's PTSD is linked to serving two tours in Iraq, where she said he killed people and saw a suicide bomb seriously injure other Marines.

But on Thursday, Marine Maj. Kelly Frushour said a Marine Corps investigation on the matter showed Hafterson did not witness the bombing that injured a lieutenant in his command and did not engage in any combat while deployed. Frushour also said Hafterson did not kill anyone or even fire his weapon.
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