Military/ Old friends

Richmond County Sheriff's Sgt. John Gray and former Marine Cpl. Paul Robbins both became emotional over now-retired bomb dog Max this month, but for different reasons.

Gray was saying goodbye to the 7-year-old Labrador who'd been his companion since 2012. Robbins was reuniting with an old friend he had walked with through the dangerous deserts of Afghanistan.

Robbins flew to Augusta to take Max back to Massachusetts so the two could, as he put it, "grow old together." He trained with Max for five months in 2011 as they were both being prepared for a deployment to the Middle East. They then spent another five months together in southern Helmand, Afghanistan.

Bomb-sniffing K9, Marine reunited after tour in Afghanistan