{"id":72676,"date":"2017-06-10T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72676"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:46:48","slug":"us-vets-in-africa-protecting-rhinos-facing-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72676","title":{"rendered":"US Vets in Africa Protecting Rhinos, Facing PTSD."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhinos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/articles\/us-combat-veterans-in-africa-turn-skills-to-protecting-rhinos-fighting-ptsd\">The Army Times<\/a>\u00a0(I know, a bit out of my swim lane) reports that a group of US combat vets has formed a non-profit that addresses both poaching and PTSD. A former Marine, Ray Tate, founded\u00a0Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (<a class=\"\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/vetpaw.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/vetpaw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vetpaw<\/a>) with the goal of\u00a0protecting rhinos and other game in the bush around their base in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The vets have had extensive training and are salty enough &#8220;to resist the temptation&#8221; of the use of lethal force, and use &#8220;textbook COIN&#8221; techniques, according to Kevin, a former Green Beret who did not wish to be identified further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The organization seeks to employ combat veterans and giving them a similar level of brotherhood, intensity and purpose they knew during deployments. That also may help offset the PTSD that Tate told The Guardian \u201ceveryone gets\u201d after returning from war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are all these veterans with billions of dollars of training and the government doesn\u2019t use them. I saw a need in two places and just put them together,\u201d Tate said. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope part of the price of admission is a valid DD-214. If so, good on them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times\u00a0(I know, a bit out of my swim lane) reports that a group of &hellip; <a title=\"US Vets in Africa Protecting Rhinos, Facing PTSD.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72676\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Vets in Africa Protecting Rhinos, Facing PTSD.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}