If you haven’t read in the news, there is a Marine team that is looking to be reunited.  Corporal Megan Leavey (Marine Dog handler) has desired to care for her one time partner, “Sergeant Rex”.

Quick story:

On deployment number two to Afg, we had several of these dynamic duo teams that made a big difference.  Well one day one of those teams was attacked by an IED.  The Marine lost both legs.  The dog’s condition unknown.  The Marine was medivacd to a shock trauma unit where he was saved and sedated.  Guess what the first question to the surgeons was just before they put him under?  How is my dog?

This is where I came in.  At about 0100 in the morning I was involved in the fight still in our Command Center when I got a radio call asking how the dog was.  After confirming a couple times we sent the radio traffic that the dog made it through without a scratch.  The wounded Marine was already heavily sedated and flown to Germany, then the States.  The clock started.  After the fight was completed we began devising a savvy plan that only Marines can to have that dog at the Marine’s bedside when he came out of surgery.  I had about 72ish hours.  Through some cigar trading and care package donating, the dog was on an Air Force aircraft to the States just behind the Marine.  I would have paid to have seen the Marine’s face when he woke up from surgery and the first thing he saw was his loyal K9 Marine waiting for him by his bed.

Courtesy of One Marine’s View.

Click here to read the MyFox article about Corporal Megan Leavey (Marine Dog handler) and “Sergeant Rex” and also to watch the video.

Courtesy of My Fox New York.

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