Operation Rambo started in 2017 as a way to help veterans get service animals in the Rogue Valley.

So what we do is we offer service training for disabled vets.

We've also helped veterans get into homes using their VA home loans.

Primarily, we do dog training for veterans, whether they have their own dog or whether they get dogs from us.

So behind me here, you can see that we're doing dog training for Operation Rambo.

So these veterans come and they bring their dogs to training, and we work with those veterans to teach their dog to do skills for the veterans for whatever their disability is.

The idea behind that is to slowly start working your dog into working in a crowded situation, focusing on you, and obeying your commands.

The more you train, the easier it gets.

The further along you get in your training, all of a sudden it's gonna click and you're gonna say something to your dog and they're just gonna snap and they've done it and you're gonna go, oh my god, you learned it.

They teach us to train the dog.

So you just bond that much better with your dog.

To be able to go into an environment where there's other dogs, other people, and she's calm.

Stays right with you, does not get excited, does not bark.

I don't go anywhere without her.

She can tell if my diabetes is up and down, and she comes up and hits my elbow to go get a check.

If my blood pressure is high or low, she can tell me that.

They can do stuff that other people can't do for you.

She's constantly taking care of me and a constant companion.

If a veteran comes to us and they need a service animal, what we do is we get dogs out of shelters.

The last three dogs that we've turned into life saving service dogs for disabled vets have all been on the euthanasia list.

We are able to take these dogs, give them a loving home, save the life of the dog, and save the life of the veteran because 22 veterans kill themselves every day in this country.

We are trying to prevent that.

Our goal with Operation Rambo is to be able to go across the nation to be able to help veterans in all fifty states.

They're a godsend to veterans.

Yeah.

They understand us where most people don't.