Afghanistan Veteran Marine Gets Back Dog

Why a Capitol Police Officer gave her beloved dog to a U.S. Marine 
CBS 6 News
BY WEB STAFF
FEBRUARY 12, 2015

RICHMOND, Va. – Spike is a member of the K-9 patrol with the Virginia Capitol Police. Sweet as he is though, Spike, is also a heartbreaker.

He didn’t mean to be – he just got caught in a love triangle. At the State Capitol in Richmond on Wednesday Spike was reunited with U.S. Marine Jared Heine.

They hadn’t seen each other in three years. “Right when he got next to me he knew it was me,” said Heine. “He pushed up against me. It was like we didn’t skip a beat.”

They were a team in Afghanistan where Spike’s job was to sniff out bombs – risking his life every day to keep Heine and his buddies alive.

“He did a great job at it,” Heine told me.

“He was like my brother, my kid. He slept with me every day like we were inseparable.”

But after a series of traumatic brain injuries, Jared was sent home to Louisiana — where he’s been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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