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Podcast: Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories
Episode: A Service Dog Helped Save This Police
Description: A Service Dog Helped Save This Police Officer's Life. Special Episode. A police detective in New Jersey, found himself facing challenges beyond the ordinary. A former Marine Corps reservist deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, he encountered the harsh realities of combat firsthand. It was during his service in Afghanistan that a grenade blast left him with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Hearing Loss, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Returning home, Andrew resumed his police career, but the scars of war weighed heavily upon him. The invisible wounds threatened to consume him, pushing him to the brink of...