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To: 21twelve
Have you seen the story I posted a couple of days later about the morning following the dog detecting the VC? The Attack

The Patrol Dogs that we had with us were way too big to do the "between the legs" maneuvers: they were gigantic German Shepherds and they were trained to be vicious and only touched or approached by their own particular handler. We were told that if the Dog Handler was killed or wounded that we were supposed to immediately shoot the dog before he could attack us.

I hitched a ride in the back of a Deuce and a Half from Danang once and there were three Patrol Dogs in the back with me wearing muzzles and they were very, very dangerous-looking - like large, red-eyed wolves, so I hopped out of that truck and caught another ride.

Once we were in the field for a while with the dog and his handler, the dog would warm up to us some and although we couldn't take the chance of petting it, the dog clearly wasn't looking at us as the threat. One of the bigger laughs we had was when we were taking a break in a village and our dog developed a "romantic attachment" to one of the much smaller curly-tailed Vietnamese dogs and despite his very earnest efforts and the little dog's acquiescence, there still was a one foot gap between the intention and the target. We had a very frustrated dog and we all found it very funny.

108 posted on 04/06/2018 3:27:27 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail
The link that I posted for you didn't work when I tried it, so let's try again:The Attack 2

If that doesn't work, this is the URL:https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/3639936/posts

110 posted on 04/06/2018 3:35:37 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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