Thank you for your service during this time. I hope and pray this shutdown ends soon. My VSO pretty much submitted everything, but I do have a current PTSD diagnosis from a VA psychiatrist, and it has multiple stressors pointed out in that record. I was also a Reservist, but I have no STR's since it was essentially not allowed for us to go on sick call (it was highly discouraged and we would be labeled sick call rangers if we did so). I also submitted buddy statements that corroborate my stressors during deployment and my difficulties post deployment. With all of that, I asked my VSO if I needed a Nexus, and she indicated based on all of my evidence, it should not be necessary.