Not sure if this has been posted because I have been on travel for the last 2 months and am just now getting to check in on one of my favorite web sites to see whats up!!!! My Mom sent this to me today:


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/MyDawgs/brutus.jpg

The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord. He's huge - part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus is running toward me because he knows I have some Milk Bone treats, so he's slobbering away! I had to duck around a tree just before he got to me in case he couldn't stop, but he did. Brutus won the Congressional Medal of Honor last year from his tour in Iraq . His handler and four other soldiers were taken hostage by insurgents. Brutus and his handler communicate by sign language and he gave Brutus the signal that meant 'go away but come back and find me'. The Iraqis paid no attention to Brutus. He came back later and quietly tore the throat out of one guard at one door and another guard at another door. He then jumped against one of the doors repeatedly (the guys were being held in an old warehouse) until it opened. He went in and untied his handler and they all escaped. He's the first K9 to receive this honor. If he knows you're ok, he's a big old lug and wants to sit in your lap. Enjoys the company of cats, too.


Wow...makes me teary

Urban legend. The dog in the photo is actually a retired K9 Malinois in Scottsdale, AZ.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/brutus.asp

 Quote: Charlie Snyder

Urban legend. The dog in the photo is actually a retired K9 Malinois in Scottsdale, AZ.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/brutus.asp

I can't get the link to work...so this is not true, dang I thought this was so cool!!!!!!!

My husband is an Airborn Ranger in the U.S.Army and I did a lot of looking, I too find this to be fals. Sorry. That would have been realy cool!!!

Is there really such a signal as "go away...but come back and find me"?

I can't wrap my head around how you would teach something like that.

Totally bogus story.

Not to mention it distracts from the great sacrifices of *actual* CMH recipients.

I agree, it's insalting! It's very disterbing to me that some one would just make this up. Why would some one do somthing like this?

 Quote: Will Rambeau

Totally bogus story.

Not to mention it distracts from the great sacrifices of *actual* CMH recipients.

Totally agree.....

And:

To call that fine looking animal a Mastiff cross is an insult to the Belgian breed!!!! UGH....

A dead give away for this bogus article was the term "won the Medal of Honor".

You don't "win" a CMH, it's awarded. Anybody using the term "won" likely didn't serve in the Military to begin with.

It'd be better if people didn't accept things like this without doing a bit of research.
Reading the book "Stolen Valor" would open a lot of folks eyes regarding Military posers.
http://www.stolenvalor.com/

Have a look at it, it's worth the view....

I got that email a couple days ago. When I saw the pic I knew the story was bogus. Strangest looking Boxer/Mastiff cross....Who comes up with this crap?

Right, Will. You wouldn't believe how many of our local homeless panhandlers have the balls to tell me they are Viet Nam vets. I look at their identification and find them younger than me, then I know they are full of crap cause I wasn't there. They throw that story to anyone who'll listen....and give them money.