never much good with intros, im jon, currently a mature student, have been around a lot, grew up out in the gulf and saw a lot of bad things was out there during gulf1 which has stayed with me since, in some ways had a rough life and a lot of bad things happen, managed fairly well till gulf2 when things went very b ad, got over a lot of things and pulled myself together enough to be getting on with life and doing a degree in archaeology, psychs finally agreed i had ptsd threeand a bit years ago, things are fairly ok most of time but things tend to sneak up on me unawares, currently in bristol in uk, most of the time im ok but as i have been reminded even something as simple as the sound of a huey can mean things creep back, i can be a bit of a grumpy beggar at times but never mean it, currently moving forward in life but still have the ever present past with me, anyways came across here while looking at the net and thought i would say hello.