There’s an area at Fort Bragg where the troops abandon their pets, out in the training area. Joe decides he wants a dog, keeps it for a while, then either deploys or moves. The poor dog gets dropped off in the woods.
Military have a bad image among rescue groups and breeders for that very reason. They are known to dump pets when they move or are deployed, then get a new one when they return from deployment or are settled at next post. They receive extra scrutiny from breeders and rescues, while some just will not place an animal with military period.
When I was a kid back in the Sixties, I lived in Yokosuka, Japan on the navy base, and they had a significant number of abandoned dogs that became feral. They apparently lived in the caves the Japanese had dug there during WWII, and while most were sealed off, you could still get into some of them, and the dogs apparently did.
I got chased by a pack of them while riding my bike in a more remote part of the base, and had to take refuge by climbing a fence and sitting in the barbed wire on the top. It took me a while to get the courage to climb down.
I had to take to the fence because that damned bike had the most unnerving habit of having the chain come off the sprocket, especially when really pedaling hard and fast...so that pack came tearing down out of the hills from the direction of one of those caves, and when they were almost on me, that damned chain came off as they were snapping at me, and I jumped on the fence from the moving bike and climbed it.
When I came down from the fence, I had to put the chain back on before I could pedal away, and it took me a lot longer to do it because I was nervous and kept looking towards the hill those dogs had run down from.
All that said...this guy is a scumbag.