How a presidential candidate and others helped a veteran and his combat dog after learning of their PTSD struggle [WashingtonPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/24/154:00 AM

Matthew Bessler had just received a generous offer from a politician: The veteran could go to an expensive, well-regarded treatment program for post-traumatic stress and brain injury at no cost.

But the former Army Ranger’s first question was about his dog: Can I bring Mike?

Bessler had been with the Belgian Malinois almost all the time since they began training in 2007 in a Special Operations program to prepare dogs and their handlers for combat. They served as a team in the Iraq war during two of Bessler’s six deployments to the country, earning some of the military’s highest praise for their work detecting explosives and hunting down insurgents.

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Kershaw, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/...their-ptsd-struggle/]

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