Pleading for help - trying to save Charlie's life!

[gsarchie]

This is why soldiers are NOT supposed to care for/take in wild animals while deployed.

What do you mean by "this?"

I am not saying that I play with Charlie, although I will say that many younger soldiers here do. Since you are obviously familiar with a deployment evironment, you know that the reason that people shoot the dogs is because they CAN carry disease, but that no testing is ever done and that the dogs are shot as a precautionary measure. Charlie will be given all required vaccinations and will have to undergo a quaratine period before being released to me back in the States. Your stories of catching animals sounds like BS to me, as I have never seen anyone, aside from myself, move a camel spider or scorpion to spare it from someone's boot. YOU may have done this, but I imagine that your comrades were bystanders and didn't actually help. Also, you doing this violated GO 1B, so you have no room to talk.

Finally, one dog at a pound being humanely put down will have no impact on humans, save from the individual that did the euthanization. If Charlie, who is loved by everyone on this FOB, were to be shot in the head, it would have a great effect on over 100 people. I'm not saying that one dog's life is worth more than that of another, but I am helping Charlie because he just so happens to be a dog that I know and love. I'm sorry that my reasons for wanting to give him a better life where he won't either be shot in the head or given to a family of Afhgans, who wouldn't care for him like I would and where kids would kick him and throw rocks at him, isn't acceptable to you - oh wait, no I'm not.

Also, thanks for letting me know what the UCMJ is. Just curious - are you still in and what rank are you/were you when you got out? Just personal curiousity is all.



To everyone that has shown support, thank you. I am not sure if I will be able to get this done or not but I am going to try. I will be holding on to Charlie until one of the Navy Seals out here gets home and can come and get him. Charlie was playing with the Seal at one point when he was younger and while chewing his hand acccidentally broke skin, which caused the Seal to have to go and get a series of rabbies vaccinations as a precautonary measure since Charlie has never been vaccinated. The Seal is fine and DID NOT contract any diseases through Charlies saliva, so that is a good sign.