Two best friends adopt their other best friends during a heartwarming reunion.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Isaac Weissend and Marine Corps veteran Dalton Stone were reunited with the military dogs they handled while serving in Japan.Two military service members -- U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Isaac Weissend and Marine Corps veteran Dalton Stone -- have beenWeissend and Stone first connected while serving in Japan with one another as, or K-9, handlers. They built a strong bond with each other and became best friends.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Isaac Weissend and his K-9, 6-year-old male Poker, worked together as a team for two-and-a-half years in Japan."Every day with Poker was a great day," Weissend said, according to American Humane, an animal-welfare organization that helped reunite the men with their K-9s. The men, who are still friends and live a few hours apart in Texas, learned that Poker, who served as an explosives-detection and patrol dog for four-and-a-half years, and Aida, who had served as a narcotics-detection and patrol dog for four and a half years, were being retired from military service at the same time.
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