Sorcha, emphasyma and smoking-related cancers (such as cancer of the larynx) can be considered service-connected. It takes no more of a run around than getting anything else accepted 50 years after a person gets out of the military. There is no automatic presumption, however.

PoppaGator, PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, this generation's euphamism for shell shock. It is a medically-accepted medical condition, and is not, by any means, limited to veterans. Another very common version of it (unfortunately) is post-rape trauma.

A good book on the wanna-be's and other fakers is "Stolen Valor" by B.G. Burkett...but he has his own agenda.