The Marine Corps announced today a Georgia-based military dog whose handler was killed in Iraq will be adopted by the soldier’s family. The 8-year-old German shepherd named Lex will join the family of fallen Marine Corporal Dustin Jerome Lee. Lex was wounded in the same explosion March 21st that killed Lee. This marks the first time the U.S. military has granted early retirement to a working dog so it could live with a former handler's family. Lee's family from Quitman, Missississippi, is scheduled to pick up Lex from the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany on December 21st.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Cause of Comair crash due inJuly
The National Transportation Safety Board says it won’t know until July what caused the crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people. Comair is a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines. A Comair jet crashed August 27th taking off from an airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Today the NTSB announced tentative plans for a public meeting on July 26th in Washington, when it will announce its findings about what caused the crash.
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