Stressor Statement Proving PTSD   No Audie Murphy medals here, just a scared skinny kid trying to get through 1968. Problem was, we needed a lot of antennas to do our signal intelligence job, and Charles zeroed in on them with mortar and rocket attacks. We lost my CO and my supervising sergeant. I STILL have issues of impending doom and trouble coping with loss. It is probably fair that, with non-combat guys, we have to offer proof that the incident(s) causing the stress actually happened. Find the date of death of a buddy on any one of several pages of web sites on The Wall. The date of death is, or is close to, the date of the claimed incident. I hate to see true combat vets (artillery, armor, MP's, riverine patrol, combat engineers) put through this. Your combat should be a given. Sorry the VA puts you through this. [ Back ] [ Tell Your Compensation Story ]