Christopher Oelerich
ASIN: B01DN58J1U
Publisher: Christopher Oelerich
Pages: 169
Revised May 2017 Expanded and added chapters.It's been my experience that most combat soldiers would like to think that their 'war's' with the associated problems and issues are unique, I surely did, until I looked back at people I have known who fought in WWII, The Korean War, Vietnam, The Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. And came to the conclusion after talking to and listening to the various people who had experienced combat and life altering events associated with wars, that PTSD as we have come to know it is essentially the same now as throughout recorded history. I was a twenty year old Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot fresh out of flight school when I arrived in South Vietnam in May 1969 and was asssigned to B Troop 7/17 Air Cav in Pleiku. I joined the Scout Platoon and spent my entire tour as a Scout Pilot in the Central Highlands, in that time I saw my friends killed ...