“Personal tragedy, suicide, depression, alcohol and drug use, reliving terror,” he rattles off as consequences.”

This quote is a definitional claim. While it is not directly saying what PTSD is, it does mention what happens when someone is experiencing PTSD.

“the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, the most comprehensive study of combat stress ever conducted, points out that you really have to spend the money to treat PTSD, since the costs of not treating it are so much higher.”

This quote is a moral/ethical claim as it encourages a moral responsibility on giving veterans the support they need for their mental health. If one goes untreated for PTSD the consequences to that are as stated, “so much higher.”

“There were 2.4 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.”

This is a factual claim as it is evidence.

“Steve served in Vietnam, fought in the Tet Offensive. The chaplain assured him that he shouldn’t feel bad about killing gooks, but the chaplain was paid by the Army, and who took moral advice from a chaplain carrying a .38? Back at home, Steve drank wildly. He waged war with his wife, attempted to work odd jobs where he had as little contact with humans as possible. But then he got divorced, and then he got with Charlene in 2001, and then he got in a big fight with Charlene and pulled the rifles out and sent her fleeing into the night, through the woods to the closest neighbor’s house a mile away. But then he got inpatient psychiatric treatment in Seattle, several times, and found Jesus, and only ever has a beer or two, and now you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States.”

This section is a numerical claim, it talks about Steve’s life in chronological order.