Nice article in today’s Fort Carson Mountaineer newspaper about the newly established Red Cross therapy dog program at Evans Army Community Hospital. Of course, I’m a little biased because that’s our wonderful dog, Zephan, in the picture:
There’s no direct link to the article – you have to get the complete newspaper pdf and then look on page 21. One caveat: “service dog” wasn’t used accurately in the article – they should’ve just been described as therapy dogs. Nothing sinister there, just an honest mistake somewhere along the way in the preparation or editing of the article.
http://csmng.com/wp-files/mountaineer-weekly-pdfs/mountaineer_2009-03-27.pdf
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I'm very involved in the assistance dog community, including as a former member of the Veterans Task Force, volunteer, and puppy raiser at a major service dog organization. Retired as a US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant after a 20-year career as an airborne Russian and Vietnamese linguist with my last assignments at the Air Force Academy as Fourth Group Sergeant Major and Dean of Faculty Superintendent.
April 3, 2009
Air Force Amputee Reenlists
TSgt Christopher Frost, an EOD guy who lost his right leg to an IED in Iraq, recentIy reenlisted:
Whole story is here: “Don’t Call Him a Hero”.
The hard part for me is there are so many of these tremendous young wounded warriors who’ve given so much that I could never talk about them all or say enough. I still come into contact with a lot of young active duty military people, especially Army troops at Fort Carson, many of whom know I’m an old retired guy and will very respectfully thank me for my service. I’m always really … Read More