 I am Master Sergeant Mason Bergeron from the 18th OSS Air Crew Flight Equipment and this is Autumn. He is a Jindo mix that I found in Gunsan, South Korea while I was stationed at Gunsan Air Base in 2019. And I just picked him up a few days ago. I was stationed at Gunsan Air Base in March 2019 and from the hotel I could hear a dog barking out the window and I found this dog and his sister chained up in a field and they were about six months old at the time. It didn't seem like anyone was taking care of them so I started going there every weekend. For three months I would go around to these dogs and feed them and bring them toys and blankets. Eventually I found some Korean volunteers from a local shelter and they were able to help me rescue these dogs and bring them to Gunsan Dogland which was a animal sanctuary that has about 600 dogs living there. So I felt obligated to them to volunteer there every weekend and the more I talked about it the more people wanted to get involved. That ended up turning into a group called Dogland Outreach that had about 200 active duty service members at one point. I decided to adopt this guy and my plan was to PCS with him but when I left in March of 2020 is when the travel restrictions got really tight I wasn't able to take him with me at that time. I'd never stopped thinking about him. My plan was always to go back and get him at some point. I'm hoping for the right time by making all of the right connections with people in Korea and people in Japan. We were able to work the process out and they flew him to Tokyo. I flew to Tokyo and I met him there and then brought him back. You know dogs are man's best friend and I think when we see situations that require somebody to do something it's important for us especially service members not to walk past it. If I never would have stopped for these dogs and looked for them they would not be here right now. So I think it's important just to do the right thing when the opportunity presents itself.