I Am a War Dog That is Faithfully Serving My Country in Iraq

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Getting strapped onto your back is a heavy protective military vest. You're flown or shipped across endless skies and seas. Feeling anxious and restless not sure where you're going or if you will return, you miss your family, your loved ones already but you must do your duty to your country and serve them to the best of your tail wagging ability can!

What are you? You're a service dog deployed to Iraq and to serve one of the most important missions of your life. To provide comfort and love to those in service. Relieving stress and anxiety with your abundant loving, joyful kisses and playful attitude. You give comfort, soothing tranquility, and solace to so many where without you there is no comfort but fear, constant stress and anxiety.

But your life is no walk in the park either, you live the same often traumatic life these brave men and women do in war, you're in the same danger zones as they're and risk your life everyday!

Service dogs in Iraq are one of the most important animals used and benefited from, some are used as therapy, while others are trained hard in doggy militaristic boot camp, going through the same drills your human counterparts go through. But you're trained different on four legs not two, to sniff out enemies, underground bombs or mines and are used as security and task force deployment. Your easy life back home is no longer yours, your life is no longer your own, you live your life to serve your country and your companions, and you can die any day in the line of duty.

More dogs are being trained and sent to Iraq for therapy of the troops, post traumatic stress disorder is a serious mental disease, where one can be haunted day and night with the images and horrible things they've seen and experienced. It can cause insanity, paranoia, delusions, nightmares, fear and anxiety attacks with physical symptoms so fierce you feel as if you're dying. To combat this disorder and prevent the affects therapy dogs are flown in to Iraq and are given to the men and woman as playful distractions, to heal and give comfort and most important love and affection. A therapy dog has been known to relieve 90% of the stress at that moment for servicemen or women based in Iraq.

So please don't just salute and praise our brave men and women that risk their lives everyday so that we can live in freedom, hope and peace, but give a salute also to our brave and ever faithful service dogs whom also risk their lives so that our beloved soldiers can find some peace and love in the hell which is war. Bookmark and Share.

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