Megan Leavey
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Corporal Megan Leavey is a former active duty United States Marine Corps corporal who served as a Military Police K9 handler.
Leavey in 2012
Lance Corporal Leavey with Rex in Iraq, November 2005
Megan Leavey pets Rex at Camp Pendleton
Purple Heart
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The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military. With its forerun
Megan Leavey
…following September by an improvised explosive device (IED) while she and her dog were leading a U.S. Army patrol down a street. Leavey was awarded the Purple Heart. Leavey first sought to adopt Rex before she was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in December 2007 with the rank of corporal. Four years…
Sign on Interstate 35 designating the Purple Heart Trail.
Purple Heart Memorial, Westland, Michigan
Admiral Mike Mullen reads the citations for seven soldiers receiving Purple Hearts for wounds sustained in Afghanistan
A soldier is awarded the Purple Heart during a ceremony on Coleman Barracks