Kristen St. Pierre, a female platoon commander for the Georgia Army National Guard, was deployed in Afghanistan in 2019. Her partner was a drug-sniffing dog named Chase. Chase’s skill set was explosives and narcotics, and he would lead the route and conduct security sweeps of the perimeter before meetings.
When St. Pierre’s tour ended, Chase stayed behind. She received regular updates about the pup until Kabul fell. It wasn’t until the the American founder of Kabul Small Animal Rescue, Charlotte Maxwell-Jones, was able to reunite Chase with his handler after two years of waiting.
CBS News reports For almost a year, St. Pierre had no news about Chase until a mutual contact told her about KSAR. Unbeknownst to St. Pierre, Maxwell-Jones had found Chase at kennels owned by a local mine detection company. Back in the United States, St. Pierre had been searching KSAR’s social media accounts daily, hoping to see a photo of Chase. Finally, one day she did. She contacted the animal rescue and told them about their time in Afghanistan and the work that Chase did. She asked about the process to get him to the U.S. and if it was possible to adopt him.
People on Facebook are so touched by this story and @Jackie Pifer comments, “Good luck hope you get Chase back.”
The same CBS News report states Maxwell-Jones has been working on securing permissions for Chase to leave Afghanistan, but paperwork and bureaucracy have held up his departure. When Chase can leave the country and be reunited with St. Pierre is still unknown.
Source: Pethelpful
