Dogs In The Army (Read First Post!!)

[santana]

Brazilian military police Choque squad search drugs in the Alemao shantytown on March 27, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a police operation to exchange Army guards for militarized policemen to install progressively Peace Police Units (UPP) to control the slum.

[hogdriver]

QUANTICO, Va. (April 26, 2012) Personnel from Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and their children view a Marine Corps working dog demonstration during the Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day observance at NCIS headquarters. More than 120 children from the ages of 8 to 18 learned about the mission of NCIS and what their parents do for the Navy and Marines Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki/Released)

SAN ANTONIO (April 26, 2012) Master-at-Arms 1st Class Raymond G. Navarro, assigned to Naval Technical Training Center Lackland, and Max, a military working dog, demonstrate subduing an aggressive and/or non-compliant suspect during Navy Day at the Alamo. Navy Day at the Alamo is part of the longstanding annual celebration known as Fiesta San Antonio. The celebration dates back to 1891 and commemorates the heroes who valiantly fought in the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto in 1836. (U.S. Navy photo by Yeoman 3rd Class Steven Cooney/Released)

[hogdriver]

A U.S. Army dog handler prepares to release his working dog to stop a community member from the U.S. Army Garrison, Stuttgart, wearing a bite suit as she runs away from a military working dog during a working dog demonstration during the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart's Army Substance Abuse Program warrior challenge competition in the Panzer Local Training area in Boeblingen, Germany, March 13, 2012. Teams and individuals were timed on completion of the obstacle course.

A community member from the U.S. Army Garrison, Stuttgart, runs away as a military working dog catches up and grabs her by the arm of the bite suit she is wearing during a working dog demonstration during the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart's Army Substance Abuse Program warrior challenge competition in the Panzer Local Training area in Boeblingen, Germany, March 13, 2012. Teams and individuals were timed on completion of the obstacle course.

A community member from the U.S. Army Garrison, Stuttgart, laughs as a military working dog chews on the bite suit she is wearing during a working dog demonstration during the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart's Army Substance Abuse Program warrior challenge competition in the Panzer Local Training area in Boeblingen, Germany, March 13, 2012. Teams and individuals were timed on completion of the Obstacle course

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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Tenski, a dog handler with Blue Platoon, Echo Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and 20-year-old native of Longmont, Colo., and Morgan, an improvised explosive device detection dog, take a break while conducting a vehicle checkpoint operation here, April 26, 2012. Since arriving in southern Helmand province in October 2011, Echo Co. has been charged with conducting counterinsurgency operations throughout Khan Neshin district, to include vehicle checkpoints, dismounted patrols and targeted interdiction operations

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U.S. Marine Cpl. Sean Grady, a dog handler and pointman with Red Platoon, Echo Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and 27-year-old native of Otho, Iowa, and Ace, an improvised explosive device detection dog, post security during a dismounted patrol here, April 27, 2012. Since arriving in southern Helmand province in October 2011, Echo Co. has been charged with conducting counterinsurgency operations throughout Khan Neshin district, to include vehicle checkpoints, dismounted patrols and targeted interdiction operations

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A Marine dog handler from Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Forward Operating Base Duluth, and Smash, the improvised explosive detection dog, prepared themselves for a steak dinner. The steak dinner was provided by Steak Mission Team. The STM is a nonprofit organization that traveled 7,000 miles to say thank you by grilling a delicious steak meal for the service members on the frontlines. “Smash loved it too,” said her dog handler.

[Martel]

Baxter has been awarded the gold medal of Défense Nationale for detecting an insurgent in Afghanistan during a firefight thus saving lives his platoon

source : http://lemamouth.blogspot.fr/2012/05...mai-reims.html

[santana]

Jordanian special forces take part in a drill during a parade at the opening of the Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference (SOFEX) at King Abdullah I Airbase in Amman May 8, 2012.

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COLOGNE, GERMANY - MAY 08: Police stand with dogs at the new Central Mosque (Zentralmoschee) in Ehrenfeld district on May 8, 2012 in Cologne, Germany. Pro NRW, a right-wing political party and movement opposed to Islam and the construction of new mosques in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, has been protesting outside mosques over the past two weeks and in some cases showing caricature drawings related to Islam in a provocative attempt to gain support ahead of state elections scheduled for May 13. Salafis clashed violently with police at a similar event recently in Bonn.

[Az_esm]

Djulbars:

Participant of mine clearing from September 1944 till August 1945 in Romania, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. He helped to clear mines from grave of Taras Shevchenko and from Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev.
He found 7468 mines and more than 150 shells.
He was the only one dog awarded by Medal for Battle Merit.
He was wounded and was not able to participate in Victory parade of 1945 by own legs so he was carried by major Mazover(one of the main cynologists) in Stalin's coat.

[Gvozdansko 1578.]

Croatian Army Training center for official guide dogs

[layman]

Croatian Army Training center for official guide dogs

My best friend...my hero!

[santana]

Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos (L) is pictured with members of an Austrian military-police unit on May 11, 2012 in Mautern, some 60 kilometres west of Vienna. Austria will support the EU 'Battlegroup' (EUBG) from July 1, 2012 with 350 soldiers and take over the command of an Combat Service Support Battalion (CSSBn) of the unit.

[santana]

Staff Sgt. Harry Dixon, a dog handler with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, leads a Belgian malinois into a suspected homemade explosives factory May 4, 2012, in southern Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Dixon is on his third deployment, the dog, its second

[Gvozdansko 1578.]

My best friend...my hero!

Yes indeed

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Marine Corporal Megan Leavey waves to the crowd as she and Sergeant Rex, a bomb-sniffing German Shepard she handled in two duty tours in Iraq, are introduced before the New York Yankees played against the Seattle Mariners in their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, May 13, 2012. Leavey was able to cut through red tape and adopt the dog when the Marines retired him recently.