Kognito Interactive: online training simulation
The Virginia Wounded Warrior Program Region I, in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Health, and Kognito Interactive, has launched the Family of Heroes program, an interactive online training simulation.
Ben Shaw Profile
Ben Shaw served two tours in Iraq as an infantry Marine, conducting hundreds of missions in the "Sunni Triangle," and then a third tour as a foreign weapons instructor under Multi-National Forces West - Advanced Infantry Training Center. He is a combat veteran. Following his discharge in 2007, Shaw returned to Virginia and continued his education. In 2009, he began blogging short stories documenting veteran and combat experiences, and later returned to Iraq as a civilian combat journalist embedded with US Soldiers in the northern provinces. In early 2010, Shaw embedded with US troops in Logar province, Afghanistan, serving as a military and veteran advocate and combat photographer and videographer.
Shaw is currently a Veteran Peer Specialist with the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program in Charlottesville, Virginia..