Things nobody tell you after fighting.

There is no VA, unless your prior service, and if you are prior service, you better guard with your life that you fought in Ukraine and never let them find out, they WILL strip you of your benefits. Another thing, the PTSD, nobody and lots of people downplay this conflict, when in actuality it’s much worse than any other was since WW2. But nobody understands that, and nobody, i mean nobody besides your friends who you fought with will understand what it was like until you come home. To keep it real, everything we did or anything you do, from living with rats the size of cats, to taking incoming or drop drones all day and night long, to watching your step for mines, and the basic thinking. You WILL have PTSD, every single one of my friends including myself that are home all struggle. You can’t really explain why you can’t handle worrying about normal things, but can handle getting a team to position in the deadliest place on earth, you can’t explain why you can’t sleep at night, or how depressed you are because you want to return to the fight so bad. Every single thing apart of this conflict will alter your mind, some bad and some good. But it’s unbelievably hard to adapt after getting home, some of you will read this and shrug it off, which is what i did, now that im home functioning normally requires a lot of effort, and struggle. You will struggle with finding anything you enjoy, not in every case but most. I can barely enjoy fishing with the boys, hunting all the normal things i used to find fun give me 0 emotion.

you aren’t fighting in Afghanistan, or Iraq, nor will you fight gorillas. you will fight in a conventional war, where they have the same skin color, same religion, and similar beliefs, they literally looked like you. You will fight out of trenches that had bodies rotting for weeks, skeletons, lived with rats the size of cats, with mice that ate right through your food bag all while knowing a shell could blast through the roof of your bunker at any given minute and take everything with it. Tell me you be a little messed up after doing that, i want people to understand the self sacrifice, and if you aren’t willing to feel this way when you get out, if you get out, then don’t bother.

These things will stick with you for the rest of your life, and not to be rude but nobody gives a f*** that you fought for a different country that desperately needs your help.