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Lawmakers: Make It Easier For Military Dogs To Reunite With Soldiers After War [PHOTOS]
11:05 PM 07/23/2014
Alex Pappas




WASHINGTON — They served in the Civil War. They were there for American soldiers during both world wars. One was even on SEAL Team Six, the military team that killed Osama Bin Laden.

But military dogs do not always get to go home with their military handlers after serving together in war.

During a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, legislators argued it should be easier for these veterans to reunite with their dogs.

“The relationship between the dogs and servicemen, that shouldn’t be broken,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young said. “That dog should be theirs.”

“If it weren’t for their dogs — their friends and companions – in Iraq and Afghanistan, an untold thousands of members of our armed forces might not be alive today,” Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said.

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Ganzert explained that military policy dictates that when a military dog is retired while overseas — and not while back in the United States — it is not given a military transport home. That makes it difficult for some veterans to afford the costs to send the retired dog home.

“Some of these dogs are slipping through the cracks,” Ganzert said.

“The solution is quite simple, and it doesn’t cost anything… lets bring them home and retire them on U.S. soil,” Ganzert said.


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