A decade with combat dogs

Man’s angels: Kung seen then with two canines he trained under the army’s first war dog wing.

PETALING JAYA: When he signed up for the army at the height of the communist insurgency, little did retired army captain Kung Boon Chin know that he would be put in charge of a company of “soldiers” that marched on four legs.

For the affection and kindness he had shown towards an abandoned mongrel, the veteran serviceman, then aged just 22, went on to become the first trainer of the Malaysian army’s first war dog wing.