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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
The media keeps saying gun range, but the fact is while this facility probably has a gun range it is much more than that. It is an expansive hunting ranch and these two were found killed in a remote part of that ranch. It is likely that they were doing something other than firing at targets with a dozen other shooters around them.
The visual of this guy shooting Kyle and Littlefield as they're firing at targets down range isn't a very accurate depiction of what happened (not that I know what happened). That's just what we get from the media, who think they know it all and jump to conclusions incessantly.
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I was just re-reading the article, they were found in the woods basically.
That's something entirely different.
I'm reading a couple of books on PTSD right now, but the one prevalent thing that stands out is while these guys to an extent know that there is something wrong with them, they almost all choose to endure it in silence because the basic warrior code of showing no outward fear prevents them from easily sharing their pain.
One of the biggest symptoms of PTSD is these guys completely draw away from contact with people and become very solitary, mostly because they have trouble connect people with the concept of living things (not put very well sorry).
They also try to disconnect from their emotions.
One of the stories in the book is about a guy who came back from Vietnam and suffered in silence, he left his family and friends and moved out to a secluded farm, and every night he walked an armed patrol because he believed that the Viet Cong were still in the tree line waiting for the perfect chance to get him.
It took a long time for friends to even approach him because he'd become rather intense about being as far from people as possible, I think it took 10 years for them to convince him to put down the gun and get help.