suffered 3 massive blows to the head from a loaders hatch from an m1a1. I suffered an mTBI before they were fashionable. Still with all the knowledge today, the VA refuses to call my injury an mTBI, just a traumatic concussion because it was not caused in a “combat zone”.
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Side Effects of PTSD
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