U.S. Marine Corps, Special Operations Command (German Shepherd) Deployed five times to four separate countries, Ziggy conducted over fifty heliborne direct action raids, including looking for high-value enemy leaders, and assisted in discovering forty-three weapons caches, twelve homemade explosive facilities, one vehicle-borne IED, 330 anti-personnel IED’s and over 5,000 pounds of homemade explosives.
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