A U.S. Army and Marine veteran from Colorado said his best friend, who happens to be a yellow Labrador, saved his life in February.

Hank Ford suffers from PTSD, but his service dog, Tommy, has helped him cope and given him more confidence, ABC 11 reported Tuesday.

Tommy was given to him by the nonprofit group Dogs, Inc., and the pair have become quite close.

When asked how much the dog has changed his life, Ford said it was “night and day,” adding, “Everybody that knows me, they’re just like, they can’t believe the difference in me.”

It is Tommy’s habit to wake his master in the morning around 7:00 a.m., but on that morning in February, the canine woke him earlier.

Ford recalled, “He was hitting me in the chest. He wasn’t coming up to my face. He was, he was literally hitting me i

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