WOOF !
Amazing!
Does this Soldier get Steak everynight?
Bomb-sniffing lolcat no can haz award.
I’m sure the dog would be happier with a nice steak. Give the VC to his trainers and handlers, without whom he is only a great companion animal.
Headline is wrong. The dog is getting the Dicken’s Medal which is the equivalent of the Victoria Cross. If you want to read about the medal go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickin_Medal I think a dog a long time ago was given a Victoria Cross but a stink was raised and it was rescinded. This medal was created.
I tried to trace down the story about another dog awarded the VC Airedale Jack http://www.airedaleterriers.org/articles/wardog.html It’s an apocryphal story I spent a year trying to tie it down including talking to the British War Museum and the Sherwood Foresters (they need aprox dates and place to check the war diaries and the story doesn’t contain the info. They wanted the story to be true like I did). The Battersea Dogs and Cat’s Home still carries it as a true story in 1918 http://www.battersea.org.uk/about_us/our_history/
The same thing happened here in the US when a dog was awarded if I remember correctly a purple heart and a silver star. Both were pulled back and during Viet Nam dogs and other animals were changed from members of the unit to equipment. That’s why they are left behind when troops leave and it’s so tough for dog handlers to take their dogs home with them (takes act of Congress to do this. Usually happens when handler has been wounded or the dog has also and it’s part of the rehab and a campaign is mounted).