Wounded Veterans Train to Combat Online Pedophiles (Dial-up warning, pic heavy.)

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by Bobbie O'Brien - October 4, 2013

...The HERO Corps is an acronym for the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Corps. It is a pilot program that is training wounded veterans to track down online child sexual predators and pornographers.



Justin is one of 17 wounded veterans from Special Operations currently training at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He’s learning computer forensic analysis and digital evidence collection to identify and rescue child victims of sexual abuse and online sexual exploitation.

“It’s just like being back in country. I mean, you’re using the same mindset to track one terrorist and moving to track a different terrorist because that’s how I view a pedophile or child pornographers,” Gaertner said.

The HERO Corps training is as rigorous as Gaertner’s Marine boot camp which required physical endurance, but this training requires mental toughness he said...

Much more at the link about this man. what he is doing and why he is doing it:

https://offthebase.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/wounded-veterans-train-to-combat-online-pedophiles/

Before in Afghanistan:



After his return home:



Don't recall reading this story at DU. Reminded of it by a discussion on the arrest of a Tea Party leader, please go to comment on the DU thread:

Brian Schwanke, Tea Party Patriot, Charged With Child Porn Distribution

to Berlin Expat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014676364

This is not new, but was only reported a few weeks ago in my local paper. This is the source they must have used.

An unusual path, that brings up conflicting emotions when one thinks of all of the players involved and the government's role in both war and peace.

Justin and others like him are working for the Departtment of Homeland Security, which has a bad reputation with some.

Those wounded from a foreign war helping those wounded here and around the world. They intend to build the peace from the ground up, it appears.

What they have seen and are seeing now, is just the tip of the iceberg of humanity's ills.

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1. Kicked for the five other people that Rec'd it. n/t