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Training video got Navy vet Bob Barker's goat

By Jacqueline Klimas on April 24, 2012 Coast Guard, Ethics, Medical, Navy, Training

For Navy veteran Bob Barker, the price is never right when it comes to using goats to train Navy and Coast Guard medical personnel. He’s written a letter to both Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging them to replace training on live animals with lifelike human simulators. Barker’s letter comes just a week after the release of a video showing a live goat that appeared to be conscious while its legs were sawed off with tree trimmers during a Coast Guard training session. According to a PETA press release, veterinarians watching the video said the…

Let me get back to you on that

By Dave Brown on June 2, 2009 Washington

At Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., asked Adm. James Stavridis if the Navy planned on going back to the Vieques. The small Puerto Rican island was home to an integrated Navy training range until 2003, when it was shut down following a fatal bombing accident and heavy protests by the locals. Inhofe, who waged a very public battle to keep the base open, along with Naval Station Roosevelt Roads on Puerto Rico, brought it up again with Stavridis, the head of U.S. Southern Command and nominee to run European Command. “I’m getting people…

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