Wardogs

By Swampus422

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Hi, im Dingo. the son of Balto and Jenna. I was born in the year 1927. I have red fur and bieyes, one brown, one blue. im a sergeant for the K-9 corps. And this is my story.

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I always wanted to do something important like my siblings, Kodi was about to be a lead dog in the U.S. mail team, while sabba was going to be sent off to to a far place with an archaeology team. But me? No, im a street dog after my family left without me. i have to live and fend for myself. No one wants me, like dad said.

"humans only want cute little puppies, not old grownups."

But my chance came in 1932. The  humans were looking for dogs fit enough to be a helper or somthin' in what heard was called wars.  This was a opportunity of a life time! I talked about this with my family and the first thing they all said was,

"WHAT!?"

My brother and sis just stared at me with their mouths wide open.

My mother stared at me with eyes full of fear and sadness. And my father said in a firm tone,

"Dingo, were not going to  stop you from achieving your goal but, humans can be violent in their fights and we can't end up losing you."

I said,

"Dad your not going to lose me!  I want to do this! I want to be important like everyone else!"

I ran out of the boiler room and leaving everyone else. Then i ran into a human. But this human was different, he was wearing gear I never seen before. On his head was a helmet - I later learn that they wear this to protect their head from flying debries called the doughboy helmet- and pouches full of things that made me back away, bullets along with a rifle slung around his shoulder.

But instead of hitting me like other humans he petted me and said,

"Hey boy were you come from?

I replied by licking his hand that tasted like he was digging in garbage. But what he asked me blew me away. he said,

"would you like to stay over at my place?"

I started wagging my tail excitedly and started jumping up and down. he started laughing and told me to follow him.

When i arrived at his place  i was supprised to see how many many men were walking around in the same outfit as the man standing over me. Then I saw somthing that made me excited. The K-9 corps training grounds.

I  stayed the night at the what I now know the army base. the next day I was woken up really early.... earlier then I ever have in a while. I was being walked out to the field with Jack. the man that took me to the base. i was forced to learn tricks from sit, stay, lay down and, roll over. I thought that was easy and  they even gave me more food!

I also was taught to be able to jump over obstaclesand crawl under sharp wire that hurt when you touched them. and be able to look for stuff under ground that smelled like gas.

But if I did somthing wrong, they took away some of my food. And if i messed up they would take away food from my bowl. And if i stepped on top of the object I was looking for, it'll give me a big shock on my paw.

But I kept going. I never gave up. I excelled in all the courses and graduated within ten months with a full military vocabulary and human vocabulary. I was a messenger dog.

Jack took back to Nome and I went to see my family. When I returned they thought I ran away. I told them about the training and my experiences at the base with my new owner, Jack.

My mother was worried sick about me, and not to forget being angry at me, and she yelled,

"DINGO! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US!? WE TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULDENT JOIN THAT STUPID K-9 CORPS!"

I couldent belive my ears! She's actualy against the thing I want to do! But instead of yelling back, I talked to her in a voice that  Kodi  and Sabba  thought that was surperior. I said.

"mother I know your mad at me for joining somthing that could end up killing me but, I did it. Im not little anymore mom, i have to do this. It's my duty. Im sorry I didnt become something you wanted but......... I can't be somthing that im not."

I noticed that everybody was beginning to cry........ including my father. I went up to nuzzel everybody and say sorry. We all spent the night in the boiler room. the next day, Jack took me onto a boat before my family woke up. I left a note for them it said,

"Dear mom,dad, kodi and, sabba. Im sorry far leaving you so early but its my time to go to a far place. I dont know when they will come back but....... it'll wont be 'till awhile. I promise that I'll come home safe"

                                      Love with all my heart,

                                                         Dingo

I didnt know if they'll understand it............

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 november, 8th, 1933.

I was going across the the sea on a carrier and found out that im quite sea sick. But i managed, because we reached land  within 3 weeks.

But what made the land it suprising was the smells. it was so strange, and hot. i found the time to take a break. But i had to leave the base in 2 hours.

Jack was in full gear with the whole platoon behind us. I had to find the mines so the shermans could pass by without exploding. I found it all in a few hours then the tanks went their ways .

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 july 22nd 1934

Far in the the jungle of beijing I could hear gunfire everywere. But since I was trained to be calm when hearing gun fire.

But the gunfire came to us........ and killed Jack. The medic couldnt help him he died from the wounds he sustained. My trainer my owner.......my friend.

They had to send me back to base to get a new trainer. Two years! Two goddamn years and he dies! maybe if I was a human maybye I could of saved his ass! But..... im a dog.... I can't save a human life.

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Im still getting over that Jack died but , he did his job. i made friends with my new owner,Neil. He was nice he gave me food and introduced me to one of the other K-9 corps trainers.

Later that day I was sent into the field to do more work. But today i was going to be a runner. A runner is when you send  messages back and forth under extreame conditions.

I found myself with Neil telling me to send a message for the CO. but the enemy hailed gunfire onto our position. Neiil told me to run out of their and comeback soon. I deliverd the message And went back to neil's position. It was hell on earth, the earth was steaming from the bomb blasts and found many wounded soldiers laying on the ground....... One of them was Neil. he was shot in the arm but with no one to care for him because the medic was shot dead.

Neil yelled to me with a message  in hand and said, "DINGO! BRING THIS MESSAGE TO THE DAMN CO!"

I ran to him and grabbed the message in his hand and ran full tilt. Then suddenly I felt a hot pain shoot up my leg. I was shot in the back of the leg and saw it bleeding. I kept on going and made it to the CO.

They saw my wounded leg and took me too the aid station. My message made it to the CO and they sent men to the Neil's position.

An hour later Neil and all the wounded came back alive and well. Neil was sent to the base in anchorage a day later. my leg recovered but my day as a K-9 messenger was up. But they kept me on base guard and was promoted to sergeant after my leg healed.

While on base duty I befriended a german shepherd name heather. she was nice and she told me that she got in the K-9 corps by accident. apparently she was snooping around a base in maryland and found herself with a trainer.

Thats fine by me. I was taken in by Jack by accident. Funny how things like that could happen.

Day by day I was getting closer to her and finally asked her out while we were off base duty. We did many things that day. I even kissed her that night. I was in love baby!

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december 13 1934

Heather and I were like peas and carrots we always stuck together. Now even though we were just dogs, we knew very well that trainer needed us, but mine was all the way in Alaska! so Heathers owner took me In. What was suprising was that Heathers trainer was a girl. I thought that the army didnt take girls in for anything? But she was diffrent, she looked like a boy. I guess she snuck into the army. oh well it wont hurt us if they found out. Her trainers name was Rick.

Now rick was nice and all but she was kinda crazy. she would change her high voice to a low voice when a surperior walked by. Or when she would go to the bath room when all the guys were gone. 

I found out that Rick was being shipped back to alaska. So she took both of us with her. what was good because its the base Neil was staying at. I was reunited with him and stayed with him for a while.

Rick was given orders to stay in Alaska so I stayed their until I was honorably discharched with the rank sergeant.

But Heather was discharched for being wounded. apparently shey was pulling some crates and pulled a few muscles in her legs. she never recovered full enough to me her discharge.

She and I stayed with Neil until Rick came back. Neil and Rick fell in love at first sight. We all moved down to Nome. and I moved for the last and final time.

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Epilouge.

Dingo met up with his family on Feburary 2nd 1935. he had eight pups with