0/28/2013 – JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — Lt. Gen. James Holmes, Air Education and Training Command vice commander, was a part of history Oct. 28 when he had the chance to speak at a ceremony unveiling the first national monument dedicated to U.S. Military Working Dog teams. Read More:
Larry Chilcoat with his partner, Geisha, in Vietnam in 1969. Chilcoat, who lived in Victoria for 40 years before retiring from DuPont and moving to Rockport, worked to get a memorial built to military dogs. The monument was dedicated at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio on Monday. Read More:
Military members unveil the U.S. Military Working Dog Teams’ National Monument Monday, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. JBSA-Lackland is home to the Department of Defense Military Working Dog Program and is where the U.S. Armed Forces has trained its military working dog teams since 1958. It is the world’s largest training center for military dogs…
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Word on the street was that insurgents were hiding in the building. Leading the patrol in this Iraqi town was a military working dog and his handler. Before U.S. troops could enter and search the building, the handler and dog had to ensure that it wasn’t booby trapped. Read More:
HELENA – For a time in the early 1940s, the barking of about 1,000 dogs in Rimini filled not only that gulch, but spilled over into other drainages. The dogs and 100 or so men were training in support of one of the Army’s greatest missions never attempted, the invasion of Nazi-occupied Norway – although…
He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC- back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it’s a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913…
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – From the moment Staff Sgt. Brian Williams arrived at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to begin his recovery, he had only one request. Carly. Williams was deployed from the 87th Security Forces Squadron when he suffered serious injuries after an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on a…