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I was always the squared away Marine.

Vince Bryant, US Marine Corps 2001 - 2009, talks about why he didn’t ask for help with his PTSD right away.

Transcript

You know, we take on a certain type of military mindset

in the Marine Corps, so if they found out,

oh, you're going through treatment,

oh, okay, he's nothing now.

He's given up, he's wussin' out.

So I never wanted that title

because I was always a squared away Marine.

But squared away ain't always good

when you're dealing with issues of that type.

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