{"id":68697,"date":"2016-10-31T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68697"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:46:41","slug":"lisa-mccombs-and-service-dog-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68697","title":{"rendered":"Lisa McCombs and service dog problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of you folks sent links to the story about former Army Captain Lisa McCombs and her service dog Jake and the problems they had getting home from  Kansas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/10\/30\/combat-vet-with-ptsd-sues-american-airlines-for-barring-service-dog-from-flight.html\">Fox News<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/articles\/combat-vet-sues-american-airlines-for-rejecting-her-service-dog\">Army Times<\/a> says it was October 27th a year ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the legal brief, airline personnel refused to let McCombs through security with her dog for two days in a row despite adding Jake, a chocolate Labrador Retriever, to her reservations and bringing several forms of valid documentation listed on American Airlines&#8217; website.<\/p>\n<p>With boarding passes in hand on Oct. 25, a Sunday evening, McCombs alleged, an agent approached her and asked, &#8220;Ummm, are you trying to fly with that?&#8221; while gesturing to the dog. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how therapeutic a dog is in these circumstances, but I always feel better with a dog in the room. It probably doesn&#8217;t help that every phony in the country have dogs that they call &#8220;service dogs&#8221; but are nothing more than a mutt with a vest. I&#8217;m sure McCombs is legit, and I&#8217;m sure there are people who are convinced that a dog makes their lives better, but the phonies aren&#8217;t helping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of you folks sent links to the story about former Army Captain Lisa McCombs and her service dog Jake and the problems they had getting home from Kansas. Fox News and the Army Times says it was October 27th a year ago. According to the legal brief, airline personnel refused to let McCombs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hS1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}