I agree. I'm a former Marine Infantryman. Went to Afghanistan in early 2009 and late 2010.
My first deployment changed me mentally. There was a lot of extended firefights; my vehicle hit an IED from which I got a TBI and PTSD.
The TBI changed my personality. I went from an easy go lucky guy to one on edge and angry all the time.
It took me a long time to come to terms with it and seek help due to the suck-it-up-you-pussy mentality that the Marine Corps gave us. I'm talking 8 years post service and a suicide attempt. That mentality had its purpose when in war, but has no place anywhere else in society.
May this man rest in peace. I dont know who he is, but cancer can suck a camel dick.
M*A*S*H fans will get this reference...
I got Frank Burns'd... Also a TBI, but from a Grand Mal Seizure. I stopped breathing for more than 4 minutes and it left a lesion in my brain. Happened due to being over-medicated by a Navy Doc who it turns out had failed upward so much that he was working sick call as an O-6 full bird Captain. I actually ran into some vets at VA Hospital in West Los Angeles and I told them what happened to me and they looked at each other with a knowing look and said, "bet we can name the doctor". I laughed in their faces... no way they could.
"Dr. Epstein, right?"
"Holy shit...how?"
"Treated me at Walter Reed..."
Other guy, "treated me at Bethesda..."
Apparently, that guy was famous for his "gipper" speeches before over-medicating the shit out of people...
I was so bent on not going to the Dr because I didn't want to be a burden that I was literally laying down to die (no exaggeration) when the wife said, "nope, not today" and dressed me and dragged me to the ER. Took 6 liters of saline to get my BP up to 100/60 and Dr said once I'd stabilized that he was surprised I was alive coming in and would def have died if I'd gone to sleep.
And I STILL struggle asking for help...
Anyway, this probably deserves its own thread in the off-topic, but I agree. The mentality is a necessity of war, but doesn't work after...at all.