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The Falklands was horrific. Not only was a relatively young and inexperienced sent to a hostile and remote theatre, they had been trained and equipped to fight street skirmishes in Northern Ireland, not freezing bogs in the South Atlantic against a country with planes, ships and professional (if conscripted) soldiers. Whereas now anyone joining the forces knows what they are getting into, back then if you joined the Navy or Air Force in particular it was reasonable for you to expect never to have to actually fight anyone for the entirety of your career. As such there simply wasn't any understanding of post traumatic stress and there certainly wasn't any infrastructure to deliver effective treatment. People were just sent home, patched up and expected to cope. Hundreds of them didn't of course.