Animals will NO longer be shot in U.S. Military Medical Training

Compassion replaces cruelty in U.S. military medical training.

For the first time in U.S. military medical training, live animals will no longer be shot to teach battlefield care.

Pigs and goats were routinely used in these drills. 

To ban explicitly covers dogs, cats, non-human primates, and marine mammals, closing the door on shifting harm to other species. 

Training will now rely on advanced human simulators that bleed, breathe, and react like injured people.

Once treated as expendable, they are now spared to live in peace.

Medics continue learning how to save lives without animals being used as expendable bodies.

For years, this was how training was done.

A pig or goat was strapped to a table while preparations were made. 

Anesthesia was administered, then bullets were fired into muscle or organs to create traumatic wounds. 

Medics practiced controlling bleeding while the animal suffered severe bleeding. 

The animal was killed once the session ended.

Most countries abandoned this method long ago, and some military branches reduced its use, yet exceptions remained. 

Medics will now learn to save lives without taking them.

Live fire trauma training on animals is now removed entirely, rather than limited or discouraged.

A retired military doctor involved in trauma care explained the shift. 

"Treating an unconscious animal never reflected the reality of helping a wounded person who is awake, terrified, and in pain.

Simulators recreate that reality without taking a life."

When harm is removed rather than managed, suffering stops repeating.

The same pattern appears everywhere - animals are caught in cycles they cannot escape on their own.

Every birth repeats the cycle of suffering until we break it with lasting solutions.

The world's 600 million stray dogs and 87 million stray cats give birth to over 1 billion homeless puppies and kittens every year. 

Those who survive repeat the cycle, leading to endless generations of suffering.

This is why we are developing a one-time, permanent-lasting, birth control Cookie that, when eaten, will spay or neuter a homeless dog or cat without surgery, to end the overpopulation crisis.

You can help the next street dog before they are born into the same misery, starting at just $5 a month.

Yes, I’ll Help End This Cycle of Suffering!

Thank you for caring and for helping animals.

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Sources:

[1] The Guardian

[2] Navy Times

[3] Stars and Stripes