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Army veteran: "The PTSD comes later"

One of the youngest soldiers to receive the George Medal for bravery after serving in Iraq says he feels abandoned by the army and is now effectively homeless and sleeping in a car.

Fusilier Daniel Smith was 20 when he risked his life twice - in the space of a few days - by trying to rescue colleagues who'd been blown up in a roadside bomb. He now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and says the support he's had from the armed forces is pitiful.

Joanna Gosling spoke to Paul Fisher, a veteran with PTSD who is campaigning on the issue of compensation, Prof Neil Greenberg a former Ministry of Defence psychiatrist and now at Kings College London as head of its military mental health unit and Jay Wheeler, a veteran who has PTSD, about the condition.

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