Posted on 06/22/2016 11:42:43 AM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
Throughout the course of the long war in Afghanistan, Coalition troops have relied on thousands of military working dogs to help keep them safe, and make their jobs easier. The dogs are trained to detect explosives, to find illegal drugs, to search for missing comrades, or target enemy combatants. Not only are they active on the front lines, but behind the lines they serve as therapy dogs, service dogs, and loyal companions. They also share the same risks as the ground troops, suffering injuries and sometimes death on the battlefields. Gathered here are images of these dogs and their handlers in Afghanistan and back home, from over the past several years......
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Very touching article and photos.
Those are amazing pictures!
I’m going to need a tissue.
Great story. Articles like this cause me to reach for the tissue box.
Remember Liam Tasker, the Scottish soldier killed in Afghanistan, and his sniffer dog, Theo, who died of a broken heart?
http://www.fallendogs.com/story.php?dogID=34
Devotion pure and simple.
A dog belonging to a German soldier bites an Afghan during riots prior to a soccer match in Kabul's main stadium, on February 15, 2002. The match was to be a goodwill game between peacekeepers and an Afghan team when an overflow crowd began fighting their way through the gates, and Afghan police beat back the crowd with tree branches, strips of rubber, and the butts of their rifles, injuring at least 50 people, according to German peacekeeping medics.
Good dog!
I’d very much like to give that good dog a Beggin’ Strip.
Bacon, bacon, bacon!
May our men and devoted critters return safe.
Oh man, just look at that German Shepherd guarding his human.
That is just beautiful!!
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