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A Navy SEAL died convinced years of exposure to blasts had badly damaged his brain.

“He was hurt, and he wasn’t crazy,” his father Frank Larkin says.

In 2017, a postmortem study found that Ryan Larkin, a combat medic and instructor who taught SEALs how to breach buildings with explosives, had a pattern of brain scarring unique to service members who’ve endured repeated explosions.

Seven years later, an Army reservist who carried out a high-profile mass shooting was also found to have brain damage, underscoring how much the research and technology needed to fully understand and treat traumatic brain injury is still lagging, experts and advocates said.

Now, his dad says the military needs to take this issue more seriously.

Read more: nbcnews.app.link/mZLE6Dpb4Hb

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