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But I know some of this 100% is BS, from an inside source.
I've known it's BS for decades. A former fellow Marine I worked with was an engineer (not a grunt) and brought home an NVA helmet he found in 1969.
Twenty years later he's at the VA whining he can't stop thinking about the guy who wore it. Oooooh, woe is me, PTSD, where's my money?

Two weeks ago I had lunch with a guy I went to HS with. He was Air Farce at Cam Rahn Bay ... i.e., in the rear with the gear.
During lunch he announces he's going to the VA because when TET Offensive broke out (45 years ago!), they made him put on a helmet and gave him a rifle, just in case.
His complaint? He was AF and never trained to fight and now he has nightmares. Oooooh, woe is me, PTSD, where's my money?

OMG! I think they should not be able to claim PTSD unless they were actually in combat. Period. I don't even care about the money it's the freaking principle. My guy had his life crushed by these miserable bastards in the VA.

To this day their solution is take a pill. I hate these bastards and wish my husband would just go to a private doc, but he won't so that's that.

H=There may be some fraud bet be careful not to trivialize PTSD

It's likely to have destroyed more lives than bullets.