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Subject: Rufus- a true hero.

Posted by: Duardo
Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
Posted by: colbyrules8
Posted by: Duardo
Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.

Quite an amazing story.


Our National Guard unit is currently deployed to Afghanistan. We recently had a suicide bomber attack our base.

Five soldiers were wounded in the blast, but the outcome could have been far worse.

We have had several dogs come onto our base from time to time, and we have somewhat adopted two of them. We have a small puppy named Sasha, and an older dog named Rufus.

On the night of the incident, both dogs were seen barking at and trying to attack someone in an Afghan police uniform near one of our buildings. Two of the five soldiers that were wounded heard the commotion and yelled at the dogs, which were right outside of their room.

Right after them yelling, chaos happened. The suicide bomber detonated himself in the doorway of the building. Amidst the smoke and confusion, soldiers were scrambling to find out what had happened.

Once everyone realized that we had taken casualties, everyone started to move and treat the wounded, and we began to secure the base.

After the five casualties had been medevaced to another base, secondary assessments of the area began. During that check, Rufus was found lying outside of the building.

Witnesses said they saw Rufus and Sasha biting the leg of the attacker as if they were trying to keep him from entering the building. Because of their efforts, the attacker was only able to make it to the building entrance. Had the dogs not tried to stop him, no one knows what the outcome would have been or how many more casualties we would have taken.



I found this story to be pretty cool considering that is actually my brigade.

  • 12.06.2012 2:03 AM PDT
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Loyal dogs, should get a medal or something. They've given medals to animals before haven't they?

  • 12.06.2012 2:07 AM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
Posted by: colbyrules8
Posted by: Duardo
Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.


Posted by: Co M4N
Loyal dogs, should get a medal or something. They've given medals to animals before haven't they?
I have no idea but I do know they raised money to have this dog flown over to the US and they adopted him.

  • 12.06.2012 2:38 AM PDT

A competitive players main goal is to win.
A casuals main goal is to have fun regardless of whether that results in a win or loss.
It has nothing to do with individual skill or knowledge, it has to do with the reason you play.

Shame that the other dog didn't make it.

  • 12.06.2012 2:49 AM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
Posted by: colbyrules8
Posted by: Duardo
Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.


Posted by: Metalignus
Shame that the other dog didn't make it.
I know :(

  • 12.06.2012 3:00 AM PDT

I want her...

I was expecting a FFVII thread

  • 12.06.2012 3:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Co M4N
Loyal dogs, should get a medal or something. They've given medals to animals before haven't they?
Yeah, some dogs have earned medals in the past. These ones sound like they deserve them.

  • 12.06.2012 4:04 AM PDT
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Real account.

Join me as we make new friends from different communities!

If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Reminds me of a mole rat.

  • 12.06.2012 4:13 AM PDT