On the back of a horse at a farm in Yelm, Mike Buccieri began letting go of the psychological wounds he carried after an Afghan insurgent’s bullet tore into his back and ripped him from the Army life he loved. He found the equine-based therapy that worked for him when the Army sent him to a Warrior Transition Battalion, a medical unit he had once disparaged as a purgatory for “broken soldiers” on their way to being “kicked out” of the military. Now he volunteers there to help other wounded veterans in their own recoveries. “Yes, the Warrior Transition Battalion was the right place for me to be,” Buccieri, 31, said. “After about the fifth week of riding, I was actually opening up about things...
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