Posted on 11/09/2014 8:34:42 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Where’s Matty?
On July 20, 2013, Spc. Brent Grommet returned from Afghanistan with his military working dog, a Czech German shepherd named Matty. The two had gone through basic training together, deployed together and were injured together when a roadside IED detonated.
Grommet slept on top of Matty’s crate as they flew back to the United States. Upon landing at an Air Force base in New Jersey, the two were separated — standard operating procedure.
Grommet wasn’t worried, though: According to Army regulations, if he wanted Matty, he had the sole right to adopt his military working dog. This right is colloquially known as Robby’s Law, and was signed by President Clinton in 2000.
Grommet had already filled out the adoption paperwork in the Middle East and handed it over to K2 Solutions, the private firm that then contracted with the Army on canine issues — and who took Matty for an examination.
But Brent Grommet never saw Matty again. He says a Lt. Col. Richard Vargas absconded with Matty, and the military has done nothing to make it right.
“It’s like someone stole your kid in front of you,” Grommet says, “and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Grommet, now 23, came back from Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury, hearing loss and spinal-cord injury. The latter required surgery and still causes him severe daily pain. He also suffers from migraines, chronic breathing problems and PTSD.
“Matty calmed his mood swings,” says Grommet’s father, Don. “When he thought he was getting the dog back, he seemed to be doing better.”
But months passed without any word on Brent’s adoption papers, and all of the Grommets’ queries were stonewalled. Furious, Don Grommet called every military base in the United States that handles military working dogs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Have everyone email Bill O’Reilly and Greta and ask them to make a big fuss over this on the air. If it wasn’t for them our Marine would never have gotten out of Mexico.
That someone needs to shoot this arrogant thief. Ok, *I* said arrogant thief, not the other poster. I was thinking in one knee so he’d never forget. Also I’m surprised they didn’t delete my post!
LTC Vargas, there is a special place in Hell reserved just for you...right next to the Obamas!
I’m with you but I’d prefer a little chainsaw justice.
This is the lowest, scummiest thing I’ve read about in a quite a while.
How do people do this??
Because he grossly disrespects both the rights and wants of others and the military as a whole?! That’s my theory.
Someone get this to Greta VS...STAT
She will jump on it like a tick on a dog. The woman is a marvel. Seriously, she will get out the message and follow thru. God bless Grommet and Matty. To lose a dog due to death is terrible. To have a dog stolen is uncivilized and beyond contempt.
If there are no dogs in heaven, then it ain’t heaven
Get him a dog named Wallace?
Someone needs to interview this ____.
“...warned” not to talk to the Post about it or risk imprisonment in Leavenworth? This needs more attention.
Thanks for posting that.
Sent the link to my congressman and senators as well as Greta and our local morning talk show guy. There's no good reason for doing this to Brent.
I hope we do something for this soldier. This is so wrong!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!!!!!
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“’I adopted the dog out legally, so there’s nothing you can do about it,’ Vargas reportedly told Grommet’s father Don when he phoned.”
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