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There's a movie here somewhere:
They had worked together for three years — Air Force Tech Sergeant Jamie Dana and her bomb sniffing dog, Rex — when, last June in Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded under their Humvee.He was alive, of course. And TSgt Dana wanted him by her side as she recovered.Sgt. Dana, with massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine and collapsed lungs, had one question for the doctors.
“I said, ‘Is my dog dead?’ And they said, ‘Yes.’ And that just breaks your heart,” she recalls.
In a letter, a military official said letting Dana have Rex "would not be a legal or advisable use of Air Force assets despite the sentimental value and potential healing effects it might produce."Skipping the middle of the story, here's the endTop Air Force officials later relented, but they originally insisted that there was nothing they can do to make it happen because the law forbids giving away a trained military dog while it's still useful. Rex is 5 years old and the German shepherd owed the military the remaining five years of his useful life.
Tech. Sgt. Jamie Dana and her dog, Rex, both wounded by an improvised explosive device in June in Iraq, capped a tour of Capitol Hill on Tuesday with an appearance in the House of Representatives during the president’s State of the Union message.More of that middle here and here and here.
Here's hoping they live happily ever after.