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Adam L. Cann

    
Tuesday, January 10 2006 @ 06:50 AM MST
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Individuals USwww.estripes.com -- RAMADI, Iraq — Marine Sgt. Adam L. Cann had less than two months to go before he finished his second tour in Iraq, and the 23-year-old military dog handler told friends that he and his trusty German Shepherd, Bruno, would be right back for a third.



“He loved it out here,” said fellow Marine dog handler Cpl. Allen Swartwoudt, 27, of Austin, Texas. “He was looking forward to coming back immediately.”

Cann, a native of Davie, Fla., died Thursday as he was helping to control crowds outside of an Iraqi police recruitment and screening center at the sprawling Ramadi Glass Factory. He was attached to the 2nd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Force Services Support Group, the Marine Corps said.

A disturbance had broken out among hundreds of police volunteers late Thursday morning after warning shots were fired at an approaching vehicle. Cann, Bruno and two other dog handlers and their hounds had just helped to restore order before a suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest, killing Cann, Army Lt. Col. Michael E. McLaughlin, 27 Iraqi police volunteers and two Iraqi army soldiers.

The blast also injured the two other dog handlers and their dogs.

Bruno suffered injuries as well. He will be flown back to the U.S. for treatment and returned to service if he fully recovers.

On Sunday, friends described Cann as a dedicated and knowledgeable dog handler who could never sit for very long inside camp. He was happiest when he and his dog were outside the wire, hard at work, they said.

“He did it for the guy next to him,” said Cpl. Brian Treille, 22, another dog handler from Hardin, Texas. “He was always about being out there with the fellas. He didn’t have to come out here. He could have been a trainer back home.”

While military dog handlers back in the U.S. usually place their dogs in kennels for the evening, handlers in Iraq live with their animals full time. “They’re kind of like house pets — they sleep on your bed, you feed them beef jerky,” Swartwoudt said.

In Cann’s case, his relationship was even closer. He had worked with Bruno for five or six years, including a tour in Afghanistan. “He’d been with Bruno for quite a while,” Treille said.

Military dog handlers in Iraq are a small but close-knit group, and word of Cann’s death left them stunned. Their mission is to assist in crowd control and raids and to sniff out explosives.

Cann’s friends said that up until recently, their tours had been without serious injury or death. This deployment, though, has been different. In addition to Cann’s death, another dog handler was shot by a sniper two months ago. He survived.

“Because there are only a few of us, it seems improbable or unlikely this would happen to any of us,” Swartwoudt said. “It seems like we do our job and go home.”

Treille and Swartwoudt were planning a memorial service for Jan. 14. On a laptop computer, they clicked through photos of Cann and Bruno on missions and playing around.

Cann told them that when he finished with the Marines, he was considered moving back to Florida to open up a restaurant with his brother — a bar and grill.

Up until a few days ago, though, Cann’s retirement from K-9 operations seemed a long way off.

“He loved dog training,” Trielle said. “He took it very seriously. I’ve never met a better Marine doing what he did.”
 
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Adam L. Cann
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, January 10 2006 @ 11:51 AM MST
TO THE CANN FAMILY; DEEPLY SADDEN BY THE NEWS. ADAM HAS NOT DIED IN VAIN! HE HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF SO MANY. AS YOU HONOUR ADAM TO REST. MANY OF THOSE THAT KNEW HIM PERSONALLY. WILL SHARE MANY MANY VERY FOND PRECIOUS MOMENTS SHARED WITH ADAM. ADAM IS TRUELY, AN AMAZING PERSON! FOR HE UNSELFISHLY ANSWERED THE CALLING TO SERVICE HIS COUNTRY. RISKING EVERYTHING SO PRECIOUS TO HIMSELF FOR EVERY AMERICAN! CONSIDER THE FACT HOW MANY SOLDIERS DO SERVE COMPARED TO THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. ADAM IS A TRUE AN AMERICAN HERO. ADAM WAS A COMFORT TO OUR FAMILY. OUR SON DIDN'T KNOW ONE ANOTHER PERSONALLY; ALTHOUGH TODAY BOTH FINALLY MEET. I NEVER WORRIED ABOUT OUR SON IN IRAQ. FOR I KNEW HE SERVED WITH GREAT AMERICAN'S AS ADAM. AN NOW BOTH ARE TOGETHER AN THAT'S EVEN MORE OF COMFORT TO ME. FOR BOTH HAD BEEN AND ALWAYS BE MILITARY BROTHER'S. REALLY NO WORDS THAT COMFORT A FALLEN FAMILY. SO I WILL SAY THIS; HONOUR ADAM! TAKE EACH DAY ONE AT A TIME. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT ANSWERS TO HEALING. OTHER THEN AS A FAMILY TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF ONE ANOTHER. THAT YOU ALL LOVED HIM VERY DEARLY. AN EACH OF YOU LOVED HIM IN YOUR OWN WAY. HE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU IN YOUR HEART. I CERATINLY, WILL NOT FORGET HIM! MY TEARS HEAVY WITH NEWS OF MY SON. AN STILL FROM TIME TO TIME THOSE TEARS STILL FLOW. TODAY THOSE VERY SAME TEARS FLOW FOR YOUR ADAM, AND WITH EACH FALLEN SOLDIER. I URGE YOU AS AFAMILY. TO REACH OUT TO YOUR COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL LEADERS TODAY. REQUEST A STREET BE NAMED IN HONOUR OF ADAM. FOR HE SERVED IN COMMUNITY, COUNTY, STATE AND COUNTRY. IT IS THE VERY LEAST HIS COMMUNITY CAN DO TO HONOUR ADAM. HE HELPED FIGHT OFF TERRORISM IN THE WORLD AND TO GIVE THOSE IN IRAQ A CHANCE FOR FREEDOM. FROM THE FATHER OF DRAGON SOLDIER SGT GREGORY L. WAHL US ARMY KIA BALAD, IRAQ 05-03-04 *********CHECK OUT WWW.FALLENHEROESMEMORIAL.COM MANY ORGANIZATIONS UNDER LINK THAT HELP THE FAMILIES!
Adam L. Cann
Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, January 11 2006 @ 02:36 AM MST
Adam,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country-not just in OIF, but in Afghanistan as well. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

Semper Fi Devil Dog!
Adam L. Cann
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, January 16 2006 @ 07:54 PM MST
My your family be blessed with strength. You will always miss him. The pain only hides for a while but then it show back up. My thoughts are with you.
Rhonda
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