After 16 months of 分離 and '存在 冷淡な-shouldered by Army 官僚主義,' 負傷させるd Afghanistan War 退役軍人 再会させるs with K9 comrade

  • Specialist Brent Grommet, 23, 再会させるd with Matty, the 爆弾-匂いをかぐing K9 部隊 he was 負傷させるd with in Afghanistan, on Friday
  • Under Robby's 法律, a 法案 調印するd by 大統領 Clinton in 2000, 退役軍人s are given the 権利 to 可決する・採択する their service animals if they were both 負傷させるd?
  • After returning from their （軍隊などの）展開，配備, the two were separated for 16 months
  • Grommet tried to 位置を示す the dog, but （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Lt Col Richard Vargas, who was in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of 採択s, told him that Matty had already been 可決する・採択するd

By Pete D'amato for MailOnline

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After more than a year during which he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be shut out by the 軍の 官僚主義, Army Specialist Brent Grommet was 再会させるd with the 爆弾-匂いをかぐing dog 負傷させるd with him in Afghanistan.

Thanks to a Clinton-時代 法律, Grommet, 23, was supposed to be the first in line to 可決する・採択する Matty, his 爆弾-匂いをかぐing German shepherd K9 部隊, when they both returned from Afghanistan in 2013.

Instead he spent 16 months fighting 冷淡な shoulders from the 軍の and its 請負業者s and searching for a dog that had all but disappeared.

Long-lost: Specialist Brent Grommet was reunited Friday with Matty, the German shepherd he served with as a bomb-detecting technician in Afghanistan

Long-lost: Specialist Brent Grommet was 再会させるd Friday with Matty, the German shepherd he served with as a 爆弾-（悪事，秘密などを）発見するing 専門家技術者 in Afghanistan

The New York 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測s that the 兵士 and his parents drove from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where Grommet is 駅／配置するd, to South Carolina, after he was told he could take 保護／拘留 of Matty.

Grommet stopped 25 feet from the cage where Matty was and hesitated. 'I was a little worried he forgot me,' he later said.

But when he called the dog's 指名する and the kennel door was opened, there was no mistaking that Matty remembered his war buddy.

'He jumped all over me,' said Grommet. 'I couldn’t have asked for a better 返答. I knew then that he remembered me, and truly 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be with me.'

Grommet had to 調印する a 非，不，無-公表，暴露 協定 not to 明らかにする／漏らす the 指名するs of those who were taking care of Matty in South Carolina ーするために get him 支援する, the final 新たな展開 in their strange 分離.

The two had been together since basic training, and during their （軍隊などの）展開，配備 to Afghanistan, where they worked to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する 爆発性のs, were caught by a 道端 爆弾 爆破.

Grommet 苦しむd?traumatic brain 傷害,?審理，公聴会 loss and spinal-cord 傷害, resulting in 外科 that has not やめる 緩和するd the chronic 苦痛 and PTSD.

Still, Grommet had Matty by his 味方する to rely on during the 残りの人，物 of his 小旅行する. When he flew 支援する to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, he slept on 最高の，を越す of Matty's cra te.

Long-lost: Grommet says that he and Matty had been separated for 16 months with no word from the Army, leading him to worry someone else had adopted him

Long-lost: Grommet says that he and Matty had been separated for 16 months with no word from the Army, 主要な him to worry someone else had 可決する・採択するd him

When they arrived 支援する in the US, they were separated in 一致 with 基準 Army 手続きs.?

Thanks to a 法律 from 2000 known as Robby's 法律, which 許すs a returning handler to 可決する・採択する his animal if they were 負傷させるd together during service,?Grommet knew he only had to wait to 可決する・採択する Matty.

But after filling out paperwork with K2 解答, a 請負業者 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with setting the Army up with service dogs, Grommet kept waiting while worrying someone else had 可決する・採択するd Matty.

'It’s like someone stole your kid in 前線 of you,' Grommet said before Matty's return, 'and there’s nothing you can do about it.'

The family began calling around 軍の bases 扱うing K9 部隊s, but 設立する no 返答 to where Grommet's partner had been taken.

After a call to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, a 非軍事の tipped the family off to the person they needed to 接触する: Richard Vargas, then a 中尉／大尉／警部補 陸軍大佐 in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of dog 採択s.

'I 可決する・採択するd the dog out 合法的に, so there’s nothing you can do about it,' Vargas 報道によれば told Grommet's father Don when he phoned.

Brent says that when he himself tried to 接触する Vargas, they had a 30-second conversation during which Vargas said there was nothing he could do and told him not to call again.

It's not （疑いを）晴らす what finally 許すd Grommet and Matty to be 再会させるd, but the dog's return to his former handler has 許すd the 兵士 to try and 傷をいやす／和解させる from his mental and physical 負傷させるs.

'It’s very hard to be upset around him,' Grommet said. 'He brings a lot of light into everything.'

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