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Dean, the battalion therapy dog, leans in for a good petting Feb. 16, 2008, from Army Capt. Phillip Rittermeyer, a chaplain with 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Rittermeyer adopted Dean, who is 3 years old, from a shelter shortly before the brigade deployed to Iraq. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA

Dean, the battalion therapy dog, leans in for a good petting Feb. 16, 2008, from Army Capt. Phillip Rittermeyer, a chaplain with 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Rittermeyer adopted Dean, who is 3 years old, from a shelter shortly before the brigade deployed to Iraq. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA

Dean, the battalion therapy dog, leans in for a good petting Feb. 16, 2008, from Army Capt. Phillip Rittermeyer, a chaplain with 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Rittermeyer adopted Dean, who is 3 years old, from a shelter shortly before the brigade deployed to Iraq. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA

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