U.S. Marines Plan to Kill Pigs in Hawaii This Week: Take Action Now

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Please Replace Animal Use in Combat Trauma Training Courses

Background | From PCRM

We are working with our military veterans to convince the U.S. Marines to replace animals (most likely pigs) in trauma training courses scheduled for this week in Hawaii. If the courses move forward as planned, pigs will be rendered unconscious, then instructors and students will cut into their legs and throats and insert plastic tubes and needles into their chests and abdomens.

The U.S. Marines in Okinawa has confirmed that it exclusively “relies on lifelike, robotic mannequins” and “does not use live animals” to conduct combat trauma training courses. Further, the U.S. Air Force’s Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills uses high-tech simulators and human cadavers instead of animals. With your help the U.S. Marines in Hawaii will follow suit.

Please take a minute to urge the commander of U.S. Marines Base Hawaii to immediately replace the use of animals in upcoming combat trauma training courses. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:

• I am calling/writing to urge you to use human-based training methods instead of live animals in the upcoming combat trauma training courses scheduled for this week, and in all future courses.
• The use of animals in this type of training is inadequate, due to the numerous anatomical differences between the animals and humans.
• Human-based methods such as medical simulators are effective and are currently used exclusively by the U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan.
• Because alternative methods are available, there is no justification for this animal use.
• Please switch to human-based training methods before this week’s courses.

You can also take a minute to call his office using the talking points above. It is crucial that you are friendly and encouraging on these calls in order to ensure that Col. Woods moves in the right direction. (Also, keep in mind that the Hawaiian Time Zone is six hours behind the Eastern Time Zone, so if it is 4 p.m. in New York, it is 1 p.m. in Los Angeles and 10 a.m. in Hawaii.)

Contact information:

Col. Jeffrey R. Woods
Commanding Officer
U.S. Marines Base Hawaii
Phone: 808-257-8877

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