I served in Iraq and Afghanistan but the horrors of war turned me into an £120 an hour sex worker

A WAR hero traumatised by the horrors of fight is now working as a £120-an-hour escort.

Grace Parker, 35, served in Iraq and Afghanistan however was medically discharged in 2019 having suffered PTSD and despair.

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She ended up being sectioned, hung out homeless and now works as a “bi-curious” escort promoting intercourse from her bedsit.

And Grace insists that not sufficient is being accomplished to assist battle veterans who fall on laborious occasions resulting from PTSD and different psychological well being issues.

She mentioned: “I don’t blame anyone. It’s my very own poor selections. However I used to be bitter in the direction of the Military after I was discharged.

“I felt I used to be only a quantity, and all the great I did was forgotten. There aren’t many ladies within the Royal Engineers and I’d achieved a lot, nevertheless it felt like nothing.

“I nodded alongside to my discharge as a result of I used to be on treatment. I used to be depressed.

“I used to be off sick for a 12 months so there ought to be one thing higher in place for troopers throughout that point, which might maybe have stopped me being sectioned.”

Grace, of Sheffield, spent 14 years within the Military after being voted finest recruit.

She additionally received a commendation for excellent work with the Royal Engineers on Operation Shader in Iraq.

She instructed The Solar: “My mum was within the RAF, and pa and three brothers within the Military, so it’s no shock I ended up with a navy profession.

“I received in hassle and was almost despatched to jail as a teen.”

Making an attempt to get her life again on observe, Grace joined up aged 19.

The divorcee mentioned: “I didn’t look again and joined the Royal Engineers as a sapper.”

Grace was named finest recruit at Pirbright, Surrey, then spent 5 years as a signaller in Germany and was promoted to lance-corporal.

In 2009, she spent six months in Afghanistan as a fight engineer, with the camp being attacked recurrently by jihadists.

There was then one other spell in Germany adopted by excursions of the Falklands and Canada.

Grace mentioned: “Life was nice. I used to be then posted to Warminster in Wiltshire and was promoted to corporal — a piece commander. I used to be operating navy workout routines on Salisbury Plain.”

In 2015, she joined 22 Engineer regiment. In Iraq, Grace received a joint commander’s commendation for excellent service.

She went on: “Again house, I used to be promoted to sergeant however issues quickly went downhill.”

Grace received careworn and was signed off sick, beginning remedy.

Amid nightmares about what she noticed in Afghanistan and Iraq, she was identified with PTSD and bipolar.

She added: “The Military did its finest nevertheless it wasn’t nice. I used to be despatched house. I used to be sectioned in 2019. I used to be given a full honourable medical discharge.”

Her marriage to a serviceman fell aside and Grace hung out in The Priory.

She received a job in a lodge and studied nursing.

However throughout Covid, a transfer to her mum’s in Bristol didn’t work out and she or he ended up in a Sheffield hostel.

Grace lastly received a council bedsit in February.

She mentioned: “I used to be struggling and didn’t know what to do.

“I wanted cash and escorting was the reply. I used to be on a relationship web site when a person requested if I used to be involved in promoting companies. I mentioned sure.

“I do it to get by. However I’m making an attempt to look to the longer term now. I’d wish to go to college. I’m saving to go travelling.”

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