CARE FORCE: Veterans for Paws

Statistics from the Veterans Administration have shown that every day, 22-men and women who have served our country commit suicide. The non-profit Patriot Paws in Rockwall, Texas aims to curb that by pairing service dogs with veterans.

The idea is to use dogs to help veterans cope.

Aaron Mixler is one those Veterans. His dog Chief, is his best friend, in more ways than one. "We started out with the hat because it falls all the time," he says as he drops his hat. "Uh-oh," he signals to Chief. "Because it falls all the time, so that with my blind eye and my traumatic brain injury, I don't have to put my head below my heart anymore, it's huge."

Huge, in more ways than one. "It's the stuff you don't have to ask for that changes your life, I've fallen down the stairs where he's caught me on the way down or gotten help for me or the nightmares you are having, and he jumps up on the bed and lays across and is just there for you."

Before Chief, Mixler had a hard time coping. "I was in 3 different PTSD hospitals," he says, "before I ever stopped abusing alcohol and actually being a husband with my wife."

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