SAS 'suffering from post traumatic stress'
Updated on 26 August 2009
By Carl Dinnen
A former SAS trooper breaks the regiment's vow of silence to reveal the effect that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on the mental health of soldiers.
Ex-Corporal Bob Paxman says servicemen and women are being over-worked, with little time to recover between overseas missions, leading to a rise in cases of post traumatic stress disorder.
He says members of the Special Air Service are suffering particularly badly - and estimates that half of the SAS personnel he knows have serious behavioural problems.
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SAS suffering from post traumatic stress
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Tom Carew, author, fake British Special Air Service, found dead
The SAS veteran who never was
After selling 50,000 copies of his book Jihad!,Tom Carew was exposed as a fantasist fixated with the SAS
The fantasy life and lonely death of the SAS veteran who never was Ex-soldier who wrote of derring-do in Afghanistan is found dead in a garage
Audrey Gillan
The Guardian, Saturday 24 January 2009
He professed to have been a member of Britain's secretive and elite Special Air Service, writing an account of his time in the Hindu Kush and other places in Afghanistan, training the mujahideen to fight the Soviets during the invasion in the late 1970s. But after selling 50,000 copies of his book Jihad!, Tom Carew was exposed as a fantasist fixated with the SAS whose real name was Philip Sessarego.
This week, the tale of the man whose Walter Mitty-style fictions caused him to be despised by real members of the SAS - who rarely speak of their time in "the Regiment" - took a strange, and final, twist when it emerged that a decomposed body discovered in a rented garage in Antwerp is believed to have been his.
The corpse had lain in the wooden lock-up in the Ekeren area of the Belgian town since last summer, and was not discovered until Sessarego's landlord came banging at the door last November to ask why his rent had not been paid. In the garage, he found Sessarego, 55, lying with his few belongings, a small cooker and a bed. It appeared that the reclusive man had taken to living in the garage and had succumbed to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
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After selling 50,000 copies of his book Jihad!,Tom Carew was exposed as a fantasist fixated with the SAS
The fantasy life and lonely death of the SAS veteran who never was Ex-soldier who wrote of derring-do in Afghanistan is found dead in a garage
Audrey Gillan
The Guardian, Saturday 24 January 2009
He professed to have been a member of Britain's secretive and elite Special Air Service, writing an account of his time in the Hindu Kush and other places in Afghanistan, training the mujahideen to fight the Soviets during the invasion in the late 1970s. But after selling 50,000 copies of his book Jihad!, Tom Carew was exposed as a fantasist fixated with the SAS whose real name was Philip Sessarego.
This week, the tale of the man whose Walter Mitty-style fictions caused him to be despised by real members of the SAS - who rarely speak of their time in "the Regiment" - took a strange, and final, twist when it emerged that a decomposed body discovered in a rented garage in Antwerp is believed to have been his.
The corpse had lain in the wooden lock-up in the Ekeren area of the Belgian town since last summer, and was not discovered until Sessarego's landlord came banging at the door last November to ask why his rent had not been paid. In the garage, he found Sessarego, 55, lying with his few belongings, a small cooker and a bed. It appeared that the reclusive man had taken to living in the garage and had succumbed to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
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