By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

After being flown back from Afghanistan last week, Smoke the war dog is finally back by his owner's side where he belongs, and Breaking Celebrity News has photos of the touching reunion between man's best friend and a wounded soldier.

Despite still being treated for the extensive injuries he suffered in a mortar attack last September, Donny Eslinger was all smiles on Tuesday when he walked his brown and white hound outside the Walter Reed Hospital in Bethseda, Maryland, reported WESH.com.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the pup crawled into the heart of thousands of Americans when an iconic photo of him appeared on the cover of Army Life magazine last year, with his head poking out sleepily from Eslinger's backpack, who had found him on the streets and bought him for just three cigarettes.

When Donny was evacuated from the war zone after suffering a penetrating chest wound, a head injury, broken ribs and leg, and losing his spleen, his pet was sadly left behind.