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A purebred yellow Labrador retriever, Oakley likes to run, swim and get into most everything -- "whether it's trouble or not," his owner 1st Lt. Brandon Harker affectionately says. And as much as anything, Oakley enjoys cuddling wherever, with whomever. That's just what Harker wanted to do with him this month, when he got back from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. Except Oakley was gone. The friend with whom Harker had left Oakley said he'd gotten rid of the dog. "I'd just like to get him back, safe and sound," Harker said Friday night. "That's about it." About a year after joining the Army, Harker got the playful lab over Memorial Day weekend in 2011, while he was at Fort Benning in western Georgia.

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Brandon Harker and has a microchip identifying device, and is a few days shy of being 2 years, 4 months old.