{"id":68697,"date":"2016-10-31T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68697"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:46:41","slug":"lisa-mccombs-and-service-dog-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68697","title":{"rendered":"Lisa McCombs and service dog problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of you folks sent links to the story about former Army Captain Lisa McCombs and her service dog Jake and the problems they had getting home from  Kansas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/10\/30\/combat-vet-with-ptsd-sues-american-airlines-for-barring-service-dog-from-flight.html\">Fox News<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/articles\/combat-vet-sues-american-airlines-for-rejecting-her-service-dog\">Army Times<\/a> says it was October 27th a year ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the legal brief, airline personnel refused to let McCombs through security with her dog for two days in a row despite adding Jake, a chocolate Labrador Retriever, to her reservations and bringing several forms of valid documentation listed on American Airlines&#8217; website.<\/p>\n<p>With boarding passes in hand on Oct. 25, a Sunday evening, McCombs alleged, an agent approached her and asked, &#8220;Ummm, are you trying to fly with that?&#8221; while gesturing to the dog. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how therapeutic a dog is in these circumstances, but I always feel better with a dog in the room. It probably doesn&#8217;t help that every phony in the country have dogs that they call &#8220;service dogs&#8221; but are nothing more than a mutt with a vest. I&#8217;m sure McCombs is legit, and I&#8217;m sure there are people who are convinced that a dog makes their lives better, but the phonies aren&#8217;t helping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of you folks sent links to the story about former Army Captain Lisa McCombs &hellip; <a title=\"Lisa McCombs and service dog problems\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68697\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lisa McCombs and service dog problems<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68697","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=68697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}