The Pic of the Day: Military Working Dog
A Navy Petty Officer with the Guam K-9 Unit, guides a military working dog through smoke to get him used to the sights and smells of combat.
Military Working Dog
So that others may live: Military dog sacrifices himself to save Rangers’ lives
A Multi-Purpose Canine (MPC) assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion (2/75) was killed during a raid against an al-Qaeda target in Afghanistan. In doing so, he sacrificed his life to give his Ranger buddies a decisive advantage over the enemy. The MPC has been identified as Maiko, a veteran of six deployments in Afghanistan with […]
Did Czech SOF and American SF beat an Afghan commando to death?
xA number of Czech soldiers and a team of Green Berets from 7th Special Forces Group are being investigated over the death of an Afghan commando who killed a Czech soldier and wounded two others in an insider attack. Last October, Wahidullah Khan, fired at a vehicle carrying Czech soldiers, who were returning from a […]
Watch: Release The dogs of war
Military working dogs have been a part of our military dating back to the first World Wars. Fast forward to the current conflicts in Iraq and AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan and K9’s have become even more popular. The selection and training these dogs go through can sometimes be just as grueling as the selection and training their handlers go through. […]
Watch: Indonesian soldiers put on show for Mattis, drinking snake blood and smashing flaming bricks
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis didn’t get the usual pomp and circumstance when he traveled to Indonesia. Instead of a “dress-right-dress” style parade, he was met with soldiers shooting balloons from between one another’s legs, rolling in broken glass, and slashing a cucumber from the mouth of another soldier — just to name a […]
Sergeant Stubby: Original dog of war
His eyes seemed to light up as he watched the group of young soldiers march in unison on that Yale field in New Haven, Connecticut. It was another one of those long days where he’d abandoned his search for food to arrive at the sidelines and witness the orderly procession. He sat there alone, lost […]
See Soldier’s Heartwarming Reunion With Military Dog
Specialist Andrew Brown has reunited with his beloved military dog, Rocky, months after they were both injured in Afghanistan and received Purple Hearts. Their reunion was caught on video Friday, three months after they were injured, separated and this photo of Rocky with his Purple Heart went viral. The Story Behind This Injured Military Dog’s […]
Mom gets her son’s military working dog after her Marine son is killed in Afghanistan
Sgt. Joshua Ashley and his military police dog Sirius were best friends.“He goes, “Mom, … he went to sleep in the bed with me and keeps pushing me and pushing me and pushing me so he takes over the whole bed,’ I had to make him get off the bed,” Tammie Ashley said of her […]
Navy SEAL Dog Training Tips for Dog Owners Everywhere: “Team Dog” By Mike Ritland
Mike Ritland and I go way back, to when we were young SEAL training candidates, and then later at SEAL Team 3. It’s been great to watch him develop into one of the world’s best dog trainers, having honed his skills as an elite K9 trainer for some of the top military units in the […]
War Dogs Interview
Here’s the transcript of a recent interview I did with Rebecca Frankel, author of War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love. Tell us about the piece that you wrote for Foreign Policy that inspired this book. What moved you to expand on “Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week” and bring it to the larger public? […]
