Vietnam Veteran With PTSD Service Dog Turned Away by VA

VA clinic turns away Veteran because of service dog 
AOL Newsy
Mar 12th 2015

A U.S. Army veteran from the Houston area says his service dog got him turned away from his local VA clinic. "A guard stopped me in the hallway and said, 'You can't come in here with that dog,'" John Sutton told KRIV.

John Sutton served in the Vietnam War, and his service dog, Jack, is specially trained to help Sutton with his post-traumatic stress disorder. "Jack has helped John Sutton after three suicide attempts," Fox News reporter Heather Nauert said.

The Bronze Star recipient had previously brought Jack with him to numerous PTSD therapy sessions at that VA outpatient clinic in Conroe, Texas.

As it turns out, the fact that Jack is a service dog was not a problem. The problem was that he is a PTSD service dog.

The only types of service dogs allowed inside VA hospitals currently are ones that help with vision, hearing and mobility problems, as well as seizure-response dogs. read more here