The war next door | Can a vet with PTSD come home?

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http://hamptonroads.com/2013/12/war-next-door-can-vet-ptsd-come-home



Ted Olsen's paranoia began in early 2012 and escalated into violent outbursts by late summer. In the fall, Ted broke neighbors' car windows and spray painted their vehicles and houses in Virginia Beach. He was arrested after a second incident a few days later.

The war next door | Can a vet with PTSD come home?
By Mike Hixenbaugh
The Virginian-Pilot
© December 15, 2013

VIRGINIA BEACH

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Location is what drew him here 15 years ago. Loveland Lane is just minutes from the Navy’s Dam Neck Annex, home to the stealthy special warfare command where he served most of a decade.

His mother, a real estate agent, helped him find the three-bedroom home. It’s where he rested when he wasn’t on secret training missions or deployed as a small-boat operator and mechanic supporting Naval Special Warfare Development Group – a unit his family knew as SEAL Team 6.

The house became his refuge after combat deployments. It’s where he recovered after a massive garage door jumped track on base and crashed down on his head, knocking him unconscious. He retreated here after countless surgeries to correct chronic problems in his legs and back from countless hours speeding through choppy waters at the helm of a rigid-hull inflatable boat.

After the injuries forced him to leave the Navy in 2006, he used his new abundance of free time to make the house his own. He painted walls, installed a hot tub, remodeled the kitchen, decorated a bedroom with a relaxing beach theme.