Originally Planned for Afghanistan, (before we threw 40 million ” brothers + sisters under the bus) as a PD TGR-BGR ” passive detection Theatre or Battlefield ground radar : only 56 lbs. In the book “Always Faithful ” Capt William Putney USMC; a real menu in what you want in a “War Dog” .
They picked people up, up to 750 yards, longer story (lots of Dobermans on Guam. Not bitework dogs as we would have had other dogs for that, just heads up in time passive detection so we could “get out of Dodge” in time or prepare to fight to the death if we had to (last very bad option!! ) as a program manager -Gen Allen + L-Col Jordan (longer story). Bitewor kalso changes their personality and it would have been up to us to “deliver a World of hurt when cornered and no way out. Our “ordnance pet” would have been the (redacted). That is the one I wish Amara Botan had in April 2015 had when her “sister” were KIA (Slaughtered) by a VIED. We are naming a cannon + order of battle after her and plan to add another page to our website that must be updated K-9 P.D. Program, Inshalla . On Guam on Marine Corps dog handler said “The Japanese could hide from us, however the could hide from the dogs” in one case they shot a “Georgia Boy’s” black lab right through the heart” and he stayed with her until her heart stopped beating then he went crazy: bailed out of his foxhole and killed 8 Imperial Japanese. In that slow Georgia accent he said “They shouldn’t a killed ma dog” They captured one Japanese dog not unlike my Child: nursed it back to health (gave in a ESL house– English as a second language!) And then it started working for the Marines under Capt Putney, DVM also. In our few words of German they are “Meine Teufelshund, Meine Kameraden, Meine Kinder” – My devil dog, my Komrade, my Child” Aren’t they all?
We all grow up, starting as puppies but who we become is effected not only by attitude but environment and the people around us as we travel though life’s ups and downs
