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Iraq Vet: FDNY Discriminated Against Me Over PTSD

Julio Andrade passed every test to be a firefighter, but a department psychiatrist DQ’d the Marine with stereotypes like ‘people with PTSD can’t socialize’

Jeffery C. Mays

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