Rachet is in His New Home

Rachet, the dog rescued in Iraq by a Minnesota soldier, arrived safely in Minnesota on Wednesday and promptly took a nap. That is a dog's job anyway - to sleep, eat and love you unconditionally. It was quite a long exhausting trip for Rachet who is 6 months old and he quickly went to sleep in the baggage claim area of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.

Rachet left Baghdad on Sunday and flew from a Washington airport to Minneapolis on Wednesday. His new owner, Army Spc. Gwen Beberg, had been trying to get him home for weeks. She and another soldier rescued the dog from a burning pile of trash in May as a little puppy.

The military bars troops from caring for pets on duty or from taking them home. But Beberg had said she couldn't have made it through her 13-month deployment without the puppy. She is due to go back to Iraq next month, but Rachet will have a safe warm home in Minnesota while she is gone. Heartwarming story isn't it?