ISIS raid war dog is recovering! UPDATE! PICTURE!

[BearBio]

How does a dog pull a parachute ripcord? Static line? Didn't see it in the photo.

By coincidence, I saw an old WWII movie with Paul Muni as a dog handler with the Soviet paratroops just last night@! The dog they had jumped with a static line.

 

[BearBio]

I've related elsewhere that I was waiting to board a plane to Guatemala and Belize when we heard about a plane being bombed in July, 1996 (I was teaching a course in Tropical/Jungle Ecology). Coming back from Belize, they brought dogs through the terminal,

After I got back, I watched an interview with a member of the NYC bomb squad. He said they had snuck explosives past every detection device EXCEPT DOGS! Dogs had NEVER failed to detect explosives in over (at that time) 2000 trial runs!

 

[Steve912]

However, that last photo makes me think it was taken from a chopper rear ramp over close water, judging by the waves below. Note that the handler has no chute...

John

Yup, helocasting off ramp of MH/CH-47, ten or fifteen feet off water. Dog gets floatation vest instead of chute, lol.

 

[DWalt]

I used to work right next to the USAF dog training facility on the Medina Annex at Lackland AFB. A great place to be if you enjoy hearing constant barking.

 

[29-1]

How great is the NY Post cover this morning!

 

[Lt JL]

Military working dogs do have rank. It is always one rank higher than the handler. Officially, it is to keep handlers from abusing the dogs. Since that virtually never happens, I think it is to let the handlers know who is really in charge of the mission.....

 

[yaktamer]

I sometimes worked with an inter-agency narcotics task force. One of the guys, who worked the far end of the county and thus wasn't around a lot, was a state trooper and had a Malinois patrol dog that always seemed to be at Defcon 5 alert level. One day a bunch of us were sitting on the floor of the squad room when they walked in. Dog walked toward me, eyeing me like I was a steak. Handler leaned down and whispered to the dog, "Friend." Whereupon the dog came over, gave me a big wet kiss on the face and rolled onto his back for a tummy rub.

 

[Texas Star]

I used to work right next to the USAF dog training facility on the Medina Annex at Lackland AFB. A great place to be if you enjoy hearing constant barking.

When I went though what was then Air Police School at Lackland in 1963, we saw a dog demo. They were impressive.

My son was wounded three times in Iraq by jihadists. If one of our dogs wants to eat a terrorist, it's fine by me.

 

[BearBio]

While we were with QU, we did annual snake avoidance training. The only people we allowed to take their own dog through training were LEO and Rescue dog handlers. One year we did a "cadaver dog" that had been used at the Oklahoma City bombing. The handler told me they had to retire several dogs after a couple of weeks due to nervous breakdowns. Seems the stress of finding bodies was too much. They learned to "plant" or hide a live volunteer and let the dogs find them at the end of the day. The dogs needed that positive reinforcement.

 

[fiasconva]

Today Show reported that he's getting a trip to the White House. I hope the whole team gets to go if they are allowed to.

 

[29-1]

Today Show reported that he's getting a trip to the White House. I hope the whole team gets to go if they are allowed to.

If the dog's handler is Delta then he will not appear on camera nor will any of the rest of that squadron. Unlike Seal 6 or any of their teams actually, Delta is still an off the books JSOC asset and as such, don't "exist". In reality though their existence of course is known, just not who they really are and what they're currently doing and where. I was surprised actually when the press named them along with the 75th Ranger Regiment as the attack element in the Baghdadi take down. Like Delta the Rangers try to keep a low profile as well. Regardless, it'll be something to see when the President pins a medal on that pup. Just awesome! Spec Ops soldiers are as a group, selfless, driven, objective focused and team oriented. They exercise combat skills and lethality second to no one. Truth is Baghdadi was a statistic as soon as the intell community fixed his exact location and the planning for his demise began. As I mentioned before, the operators couldn't have done this or any mission without a host of supporting intell, log, and TF160 aviation assets. BTW, that many moving parts all coming together at go time is the norm not the exception. Really proud of those guys for sure. Sorry for the run on, but it's been great to turn my attention toward this remarkable operation instead of the mindless constant spew coming out of the DC area these days. I gotta get back to Texas some day

 

[hittman77]

Here's a 4 year old male that's asleep in my recliner as I type this.

Some call them "Maligators". This one is not a formal working dog even though his mother is a state trooper and his dad is a sheriffs deputy.

When he was about age 1.

Yeah, he's wanting to get my attention.

After my son took him on a 3 mile run.

 

[Farmer17]

The Belgian Malinois is a pretty amazing breed.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAGU04T0rc[/ame]

 

[Coot47]

If you ever get the chance to see the movie 'Megan Leavey', it's a good one. About a combat dog and his handler during the Iraq war.