A veteran has described the moment when a bomb exploded in front of his eyes 'blowing' him in a field. Dougie Adams, who is now battling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), said he has nightmares and suffers life-changing mental injuries after the traumatic event that turned his life upside down.
It was a hot day of summer on June 21 when Dougie and two other colleagues from the Grenadier Guards were serving in Afghanistan in 2012. They were enduring heatwaves of more than 40 degrees Celsius as they were tasked with identifying dead bodies.
"We were getting their DNA so we could identify who and where they were", said Dougie now from his home in Stapleford. He was in the "hostile" Panjshir Valley, a field in the "middle of nowhere" during his third deployment to Afghanistan since joining the army in 2005.
