Nub and Major Brian Dennis
Major Brian Dennis was serving in Iraq when a local dog took up with him. The dog’s ears had been cut off when it was a pup so Major Dennis named him Nub. Nub came around for months and obviously liked hanging out with the Marines. One day Major Dennis found a deep puncture wound on Nub. It had been inflicted on Nub with a screwdriver. Dennis and the other Marines nursed Nub back to health. No wonder Nubs loves his Marines and was willing to do whatever he had to do to find them when their unit was relocated …..
Major Brian Dennis, while serving in Iraq, found a dog who had his ears cut off as a pup and named the little guy nubs.
Over a period of months, the animal came around, befriending Dennis and his fellow Marines. During one visit, Dennis found Nubs with a deep puncture wound on his left side. He later learned the injury was inflicted by a screwdriver. He helped nurse the dog back to health.
The time came, however, for Dennis’ unit to relocate 70 miles from Nubs’ home fort. Keeping nubs was against the rules so he had to leave the dog behind. As always, Nubs sprinted alongside the Hummers as they pulled away for what Dennis assumed was the last time he would see the dog.
Two days later, Nubs wandered inexplicably in below-freezing conditions into Dennis’ new camp, shocking the Marine unit. “I won’t even address the gauntlet he had to run of dog packs, wolves, and God knows what else to get here,” Dennis wrote. “When he arrived he looked like he’d just been through a war zone.”
Nubs’ miraculous journey forced the Marine’s hand, and Dennis and his fellow Marines unanimously decided to keep the animal, building a doghouse at the camp. When two military police officers told Dennis the dog could not stay at the camp, he decided the only way to properly keep the animal was to get it to the United States.
After raising money and setting up a home with a friend back in the states, Nubs will arrive in the US this weekend.
Read the rest of the story here.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
hehehe I hope you fall of the cliff too!
March 20th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I’m happy to see I got at least a few supporters on this blog, isnt it so much more intriesting when everyone is angry! lol j/k But seriously you all sound the same freedom this america that seriously I found Adams post so funny(that’s a good thing) its nice to see not everyone is against me.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
oh and sorry beth I thought you were ben. In that case I was never supporting you and you suck at proving a point over the internet
March 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
That’s such a great story, I’m definitely going to send it to all my email buddies.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:18 am
After spending 100s billions $ on a war, do you really think that the “News Machine” could not spend 10s thousands $ on this stage show. Such a nice story to hear while approx. 7,000 Iraqs die each month. Well done.
March 24th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Two or three unrelated things. While we are feeling touched by this story, let’s all go to the local animal shelter and volunteer, or adopt an animal, or investigate how many of these sweet animals are slaughtered each year because some goddamned idiot didn’t get his/her pet spayed or neutered.
Then, people, please know that the marines in Iraq aren’t fighting to keep us free. They are but cogs in the larger wheel of violence we perpetrate on the world, for Hailburton’s profit and oil for ourselves and our gas guzzling vehicles and lifestyles.
I raised two marines myself, and I know they are brave.
Feel good about the dog rescue and then go out and rescue a poor shelter animal yourselves– But think hard about our propensity for making war on innocent people for no reason except greed and ignorance.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Two or three unrelated things. While we are feeling touched by this story, let’s all go to the local animal shelter and volunteer, or adopt an animal, or investigate how many of these sweet animals are slaughtered each year because some goddamned idiot didn’t get his/her pet spayed or neutered.
Then, people, please know that the marines in Iraq aren’t fighting to keep us free. They are but cogs in the larger wheel of violence we perpetrate on the world, for Hailburton’s profit and oil for ourselves and our gas guzzling vehicles and lifestyles.
I raised two marines myself, and I know they are brave.
Feel good about the dog rescue and then go out and rescue a poor shelter animal yourselves– But think hard about our propensity for making war on innocent people for no reason except greed and ignorance.
Tl;Dr
Liberal Faggot
March 28th, 2008 at 7:49 am
awwww how sweet was that.so sweet of brian to do that for nubs.it made me cry
March 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I was the corpsman/ medic of the team…we were all glad that NUBS is doing well now. Nubs can’t even eat the first day we brought him to our base. I was the first one to feed him a POPTARTS. Major called me the dog whisperer coz no one else can’t feed NUBS at one point. I also drain pus from his infected wound and eventaully healed now. It was really a TEAM DOG…but only one can be the master.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I think it’s kind of silly whoever said that if someone wanted to attack Canada, they had to go through “America”. I don’t know about you guys, but I studied geography in school, and there’s this cool thing that the die hard hill billies might not know about, called an ocean. Well yea, they can just cross this ocean and bypass the United States (Because the term “America” encompasses the US, Canada, Central, and South America) and there we go, Canada time.
As for those that think that the Marines or any soldier in Iraq are protecting our freedom, you are sadly mistaken, and I feel sorry for you, to be so blinded by our media as to think this is true. Check out any other country’s news stations, and you’ll get more truth than anything we hear here. What the Marines are doing there is protecting our Oil investments.
Great, you saved a dog, but I agree with the other posters, what about the women and children that are slaughtered in the cross fire of this war?
Please educate yourselves before posting, thanks.