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Tell the U.S. military to stop abusing animals!

Each year, more than 10,000 live animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in horrific military training exercises that are supposed to simulate injuries on the battlefield. 

But the training exercises that are taking place in these highly secretive courses bear no resemblance to real battlefield conditions—and they don't help soldiers save the lives of their injured comrades.

In disturbing undercover video footage leaked to PETA showing a Coast Guard training course in Virginia Beach, Virginia, instructors with a company called Tier 1 Group, which was hired by the military, are seen breaking and cutting off the limbs of live goats with tree trimmers, stabbing the animals, and pulling out their internal organs. Goats moan and kick during the mutilations—signs that they have not been adequately anesthetized.

Later in the day, according to the distraught whistleblower who came to PETA, goats were shot in the face with pistols and hacked apart with an ax while still alive.

Following official complaints from PETA about this disturbing video footage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Tier 1 Group for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act by failing to adequately anesthetize animals who were stabbed and cut up. Eleven members of Congress have also asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review—and potentially cancel—nearly $1.8 million in government contracts awarded to the firm to conduct 24 more training drills similar to those seen here.

Cruel exercises like these continue regularly across the U.S. even though most civilian facilities and many military facilities have already replaced animal laboratories with superior life-like simulators that breathe, bleed, and even "die." A leading surgeon with the U.S. Army even candidly admitted in an internal e-mail obtained by PETA that "there still is no evidence that [training on animals] saves lives."

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) regulations actually re
quire that alternatives to animals be used when available, but this policy is not being enforced.
Please help improve military training and save the thousands of animals who are tormented each year in these cruel exercises by using the form below to send polite e-mails to DOD and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials urging them to take immediate action to comply with federal regulations and completely replace the use of animals in military trauma training with superior non-animal training methods.

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MESSAGE

Stop Killing Animals in Cruel Military Training Exercises

Dear Leon Panetta, Ashton Carter, Alexander Garza, and Frank Kendall,
I was shocked by PETA's disturbing undercover video footage of live goats as they are stabbed and have their limbs broken and cut off with tree trimmers in military trauma training exercises for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Following official complaints from PETA about this disturbing video footage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Tier 1 Group for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act by failing to adequately anesthetize animals who were stabbed and cut up.

Additionally, 11 members of Congress have now asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to consider revoking nearly $1.8 million in newly awarded contracts since the cruelty in the video came to light.

It doesn't take an expert to see that the crude procedures inflicted on goats, the laid-back atmosphere, and the casual attitudes toward life-and-death situations depicted in this video footage bear no resemblance to real battlefield or disaster conditions. What's worse is that these violent and irrelevant exercises continue even though superior, human simulationbased methods are available and even though federal regulations require that these alternatives to animals be used when available. A leading surgeon with the U.S. Army even candidly admitted in an internal e-mail obtained by PETA that "there still is no evidence that [training on animals] saves lives."

The Air Force's Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills and the Navy Trauma Training Center do not use animals to train soldiers, and nearly 80 percent of NATO allies have informed PETA that they do not use animals for military medical training.

Those who are willing to fight for our country need the best possible training. Making them watch as live goats are cut into pieces with tree trimmers isn't it.

I strongly urge you to take immediate action to prevent as many as 10,000 animals from being killed in military trauma training exercises each year by following U.S. Department of Defense regulations requiring the use of alternatives to animals when available and ordering that these crude laboratories be replaced with the superior human-patient simulators and other non-animal methods available. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jean-Pierre Pag¿¿s-Schweitzer


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