Here's the straight story. If you access the military shrinks it will affect your promotions, assignments, and maybe even get you early medical retirement. No matter what they say, the system is not ready to handle ptsd.

Even in VA I was assured that "no one" would know of my being ptsd evaluated, but after seeing the shifting eyes of clerks when they opened my record for no matter what kind of appointment, and a shift in their tone of voice, I wondered what they were seeing. Alongside my eye appointments and everything else are these entries - in caps - MENTAL HEALTH APPOINTMENTS. I'd say I was lied to again.

If they won't let you reassign, just go down and visit the recruiter for another service and see what kind of deal they'll cut you. I've known several officers and NCO's who couldn't get out of their MOS assignements, so they resigned and re enlisted with no break in time, etc.

Treatment ... you better get some help, buddy. Don't be like me and bury all of this for decades and then watch it bubble up. At one point I decided I wouldn't kill any more. I decided I wouldn't even train anyone else to kill. I would take combat command, but I would not take guys off the street and change their lives forever. So when D.C. decided my next assignment, without negotiation, would be a training command just before another promotion and that next level of school that you know what I mean, I just walked out.

I'm not saying you should walk out. I'm simply saying this to let you know that I understand. And what I am saying is that you need to get that civ. T who has plenty of experience with PTSD and put 'em to work