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Message:: [QUOTE="Hacker, post: 2606164, member: 30296"]I get the "fixed wing guys have it easy" thing, but this is just a bit ignorant to categorically disregard it.  Although the majority of the air war in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan has been low-intensity, that certainly isn't the case for everyone.  There have been plenty of occasions over the last 20 years for legitimate and up-close combat action for fixed wing guys. Don't forget there were shoot-downs, POWs, and plenty of close AAA and SAMs just during March, April, and May 2003 in Iraq, not to mention the non-flying stuff outside the wire in all that other time since in the other theaters. I have two squadronmates I flew F-15Es with who both had lasting PTSD effects following the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, one of whom fortunately survived a suicide attempt as a result of struggling with PTSD for years afterward.  He'd had two very close calls with SAMs and a harrowing experience providing CAS during the fight for Haditha Dam. This guy was an experienced O-4 wh'd been around the block plenty of times, not some disability-collection-hound faking it for the VA. The other, unfortunately, was involved in a well-known fratricide incident, and has had a very difficult time living with that.[/QUOTE]

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