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Tongues Are Wagging After Snub of Pentagon's Top Dog Leads to Marine Corps Promotion

Some Say Chesty's Conduct With Defense Secretary's Golden Retriever Was Unbecoming; Pats From the Commandant

By JULIAN E. BARNES
Friday, August 24, 2012

WASHINGTON—The Marines won't say it out loud, but everyone knows that Cpl. Chesty got promoted to sergeant this summer not for being a good Marine, but for his in-your-muzzle confrontation with the top dog in the Pentagon.

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