Of all the heroic service K-9 officers, retired Sergeant 1st Class Gabe is top dog. American Humane Association announced Gabe won the Hero Dog contest Saturday night at a gala event in Beverly Hills. Gabe served a successful 170 combat patrols and is now stationed at Fort Jackson. Read More:
So when Air Force Major Cody Barker, who’d served in Afghanistan, and his wife, Carrie, decided to adopt Uzo, they had no idea what they were getting into. All they knew was that the handsome, 8-year-old German shepherd who had earned his rank—Contract Working Dog Master Corporal—courageously fighting alongside Canadian forces in Afghanistan for five…
Sgt. First Class Charles Shuck and his dog Gabe spent three years working together in war zones, but now they’re on a different kind of mission—they’re campaigning for the 2012 Human Association’s Hero Dog Awards on Oct. 6. Read More:
We love dogs, but we love war dogs even more because apart from being loyal and cute, they can be absolutely badass. We are so obsessed with these awesome canines that we made a collection of the 30 best photos we could find all over the web. Enjoy. Read More:
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Sergeant Mike Dowling and his military working dog Rex were one of the first Marine Corps military K9 teams sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam. Deployed to Iraq in 2004, there was nothing that could have fully prepared either for what they would face in the infamous Triangle of Death. Sergeant Rex…
Dogster.com editor/writer Maria Goodavage will present “America’s Canine Heroes: The Story of Military Working Dogs” on Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. During her lecture, Goodavage will look at the four-legged heroes who serve our country, what they bring to the fight, how they do it and…
A bomb-sniffing military dog that has served two tours in Afghanistan was refused passage on a U.S. commercial flight to the Democratic National Convention last week by a pilot who was concerned the K-9 could be aggressive. The 6-year-old German shepherd named Kevin was prevented from boarding a US Airways flight from Phoenix, Ariz., to …
The Department of Veterans Affairs will pay service-dog benefits to veterans with vision, hearing or mobility-related injuries but not to veterans suffering only with post-traumatic-stress-disorder and other mental health disabilities. A 67-page, final draft of rules concerning veterans in need of service dogs was published today in the Federal Register and will become final in…
The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators presents “Air Force Art,” opening September 5 through September 29, 2012. The exhibition showcases the original art from illustrators documenting the United States Air Force through a wide variety of technological and figurative works. Shortly after the Air Force became recognized as a separate service…