BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Few bonds are stronger than that of trust. When trust is built upon equal amounts of time and dedication, that relationship is made even more unbreakable, dependable and able to endure when tested. The relationship between tactical explosive detection dogs and their handlers have just such a bond. These brave…
Staff Sgt. Charles Hardesty, kennel master, Provost Marshal’s Office, demonstrates K9 training for three students from high schools within the Read More:
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – The passion and love between a military working dog and their handler is generally understood, but not always evident. That is not the case for Senior Airman Samantha Baker and her partner for the past four months, MWD Penny. The two are often seen walking around the base together. Baker carries Penny…
HELENA – Despite The Race To The Sky sled-dog event being over, a fundraiser that the mushers believe in is still going strong. Mushers and volunteers gathered Wednesday night at Exploration Works! to celebrate everyone’s success but the night belonged to 18-year old Jenny Greger, who came in first place in her first 350-mile race.…
A platoon of volunteers packed toiletries, snacks, toys and treats for military personnel at the Purr’n Pooch Pet Resorts Tinton Falls location on Saturday. Plenty of Americans believe in supporting the troops – but few do what it takes to support all of the country’s military members, especially the four-legged ones. “I’m passionate about both…
I served as a squad leader with the second platoon of the Provisional Rifle Company, located at the Force Logistics Command just north of Da Nang near Red Beach. We were the perfect example of “Every Marine a Rifleman”. Everyone in the second platoon as I recall, were from the Communications Company but FLC needed protection…
Vietnam …was to become the longest war ever fought by the American armed forces and certainly one of the U.S. most unpopular. For almost ten years, we sent our young men and women to serve, fight and died along side each other without the full support of a country, whose flag they served. Read More:
Last summer, Ken Ballinger, a K-9 officer with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, was conducting a training session with working dogs on a hot and humid New England day. For safety, Ballinger had arranged for two veterinarians and three paramedics to be on site. When the dogs were not working, they were resting in air-conditioned…
Chuck Rotenberry can talk about the virtues of others, both man and dog, at length. The Marines he served with during two deployments, Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011. How young they were. How eager. “To see what these Marines go through … they were hungry for it every day. Each day, they wake…
A platoon of volunteers packed toiletries, snacks, toys and treats for military personnel at the Purr’n Pooch Pet Resorts Tinton Falls location on Saturday. Plenty of Americans believe in supporting the troops – but few do what it takes to support all of the country’s military members, especially the four-legged ones. “I’m passionate about both…