Callie, a 26-month-old Dutch shepherd, is one of the newest additions to the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron in Louisville, Ky. She is the Kentucky Air Guard’s first member of the 123rd Search and Rescue K-9 program, making her the only search and rescue dog in the entire Department of Defense.
Wilson G · 1 year ago
Mason · 1 year ago
I like that they provide her hearing protection also. I can only imagine with hearing as sensitive as a dog's in the back of a transport like that. Great handlers, and awesome that she is the first.
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Cool dog.
But for the life of me I can't understand why the military always sticks with the same basic breeds.
You want to track people? Cold track them? Do both better than any Shepard can? With a dog that's bold as brass, fearless, loyal, intelligent, obedient and absolutely will not quit? That's stronger and more self-reliant? Oh, and it can and will rip people apart to boot? Plott Hound. Every day and twice on Sundays. Your best friend and the enemy's worst enemy.
Tracks like a madman, dead silent in the woods when it wants to be, isn't afraid of anything and are meant to take down boar and bear until you finish the sucker with a knife. Gotta train them specifically NOT to kill (if you don't want them to) when you go that route. Oh, and when they go loud? They'll scare off a whole platoon who think the offspring of Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster is what's stalking in those woods.