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Video: How Do You Deliver a K-9 Team Onto a Ship?

Posted onJune 28, 2020June 29, 2020

What do the Super Bowl, presidential inaugurations and maritime mass transit have in common? Coast Guard K-9 units on duty to serve and protect. While the Coast Guard’s K-9 units are stationed at major ports with a primary focus on maritime Read More …

Marine veteran adopts dog who saved his life in Afghanistan

Posted onJune 2, 2020June 3, 2020

A black Labrador retriever named Blue has saved Byung “BK” Kang’s life so many times, he’s lost count. The two served on more than 300 combat missions while serving together in the United States Marine Corps on a deployment to Read More …

Wagtail UK launches explosive detection dog services for air cargo

Posted onMay 20, 2020May 28, 2020

Wagtail UK has achieved government certification to provide explosive detection dog services for the UK air cargo industry. The company said that it had undertaken a “rigorous training programme” set out by the UK government to prepare its Free Running Read More …

A Very Good Boy Named ‘The Dude’ Sniffs Out Bombs on Patrol with US Troops

Posted onMay 18, 2020May 22, 2020

Military Working Dogs can do anything U.S. troops do. A Belgian Malinois named “Conan” accompanied the U.S. Army’s Delta Force on a raid to take down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Another Malinois named “Cairo” joined U.S. Navy SEALs on Read More …

Inside story of Cairo, the dog that helped catch Osama bin Laden

Posted onApril 16, 2020April 17, 2020

When Navy SEAL Will Chesney first met a military working dog named Cairo, he didn’t know this canine would be The One: a fearless warrior with a soft side, an attack dog who would know the difference between a baby Read More …

Children and Dogs Work Together to Free the World of Landmines

Posted onMarch 17, 2020March 19, 2020

Bianca of Kingston, N. H., is one of those ordinary sixth-graders who loves her dog; in her case, a Bouvier des Flandres named Bear. “He looks like a teddy bear, ” she says. But this 11-year-old girl’s love for her Read More …

Having a blast: Barrie the rescue dog saved from Syrian rubble by British EOD expert is among the frontrunners for Crufts

Posted onFebruary 19, 2020

A dog who was pulled from rubble in a Syrian war-zone as a terrified puppy by a bomb disposal expert has been announced as a finalist for Crufts. Former Royal Engineer Sean Laidlaw was working as a bomb disposal expert Read More …

Melton military dog shortlisted for national award

Posted onFebruary 13, 2020February 15, 2020

A military dog based at Melton credited with saving the lives of ‘countless’ soldiers by detecting explosive devices during a long career serving in war zones has been shortlisted for a special national award. VROOM, a Melton military dog who Read More …

Officers’ “partners in crime” from all over the nation train in Dothan

Posted onFebruary 4, 2020February 5, 2020

Teaching a dog a new trick is one thing, but training one to help officers find missing people, apprehend fugitives, and detect drugs is another. To improve these skills, the Dothan Police Department is holding its Annual K-9 Seminar for Read More …

Super Bowl security shows the easy-going 1960s are long gone

Posted onJanuary 29, 2020January 30, 2020

Ensuring the safety of fans and players at this year’s Super Bowl in Miami entails an extraordinary deployment of law enforcement assets, even by recent standards, in keeping with heightened global tensions and fears of home-grown violence. The show of Read More …