Vietnam veteran turned ‘swearing nun’, Sister Sarge tackles PTSD [Video]

At 75 years old and not yet retired, Linda McClenahan, better known as Sister Sarge, is helping fellow veterans with post-traumatic stress heal through a spiritual lens.

“I kept trying to retire and every time I would say that People would say ‘No you got to keep doing this I’ve got friends,” McClenahan said.

After graduating high school in 1967, McClenahan planned to become a nun, but first, to protect her older brother, she took a detour that changed her life.

“I figured if I was over there then Mark wouldn’t have to, and I was very concerned knowing my brother the way I did,” she recalled. “I was pretty sure he’d get himself killed.”

After enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps, she quickly moved up the ranks to become sergeant before being deployed to Vietnam in 1969.

She served in a communications center, dealing with classified information, and coded …