{"id":64610,"date":"2016-03-01T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64610"},"modified":"2016-02-29T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:00:34","slug":"sgt-tom-block-human-exploitation-rescue-operation-hero-child-rescue-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64610","title":{"rendered":"Sgt Tom Block; Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64611\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CNN.Tom-Block.1-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"CNN.Tom Block.1 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CNN.Tom-Block.1-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CNN.Tom-Block.1-2-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CNN.Tom-Block.1-2-469x333.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CNN.Tom-Block.1-2.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Freedom Project starts their four-part \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/29\/us\/freedom-project-hero-corps\/index.html\">Heroes at Home: America\u2019s Injured War Veterans<\/a>\u201d with the first in the series in which they look at wounded veterans who train with Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps to track down missing and exploited children in cooperation with law enforcement. This video focuses on former sergeant Tom Block, an injured Ranger who was named 2014&#8217;s Soldier of the Year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/capitol-hill\/2015\/01\/16\/ranger-block-state-of-the-union\/21874155\/\">Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Block is hoping to get a second chance to &#8220;go after bad guys again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In one second their entire life changed. When that happens, I know from personal experience, you start to wonder, what can I now do? And once you find this opportunity, you know it&#8217;s truly your opportunity to step back into that role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The HERO &#8212; Human Exploitation Rescue Operative &#8212; program is designed for wounded, injured and ill veterans to receive training in sophisticated computer forensics, to join federal agents fighting against online child sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The HERO &#8212; Human Exploitation Rescue Operative &#8212; program is designed for wounded, injured and ill veterans to receive training in sophisticated computer forensics, to join federal agents fighting against online child sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Protect, in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the veterans receive 11 weeks of intensive training and 10 months of on-the-ground experience.<\/p>\n<p>They work alongside law enforcement teams executing warrants and serving as computer forensic analysts as part of a year-long unpaid internship. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe width='500' height='300' src='http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/world\/2016\/02\/28\/cfp-tom-block.cnn' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s Freedom Project starts their four-part \u201cHeroes at Home: America\u2019s Injured War Veterans\u201d with the first &hellip; <a title=\"Sgt Tom Block; Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64610\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sgt Tom Block; Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}