Edwards says goodbye to two military working dogs -- gone but not forgotten

[Arch Stanton]

Edwards says goodbye to two military working dogs -- gone but not forgotten

Posted 12/7/2011 Updated 12/7/2011

by Kate Blais
95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

12/7/2011 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- He carefully but thoroughly searched an abandoned bunker halfway around the world thought to house insurgent activity. Then taking point in the pursuit of an unidentified enemy, Telin confidently led the squad of troops through a desert trail, following footprints in the dirt.

Telin didn't carry a weapon. He didn't have any specific intelligence on the situation. Nevertheless, he fearlessly executed his task to track. Telin was a Belgian Malinois and military working dog deployed from Edwards to support military operations in the Middle East.

"I trusted him with my life," said Master Sgt. Craig Young, 95th Security Forces Squadron and one of Telin's former handlers. "I learned to read Telin and his behavior, so I had full confidence in him that he'd be able to find anything, and find it before we were in danger."

For dog handlers in the military, military working dogs serve as partners and fellow servicemembers, enduring patrol and even deployment duties with their human counterparts.

Read more:http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123282343

[yimyammer]

What's wrong with me? I watch a movie where people are getting killed right and left, read news stories about people getting killed and I just move on down the road. Read a story like this or see an animal even slightly harmed and I'm crushed and have to hold back the tears.

[dreghorn2]

What's wrong with me? I watch a movie where people are getting killed right and left, read news stories about people getting killed and I just move on down the road. Read a story like this or see an animal even slightly harmed and I'm crushed and have to hold back the tears.

I know man, it is what it is.

I am the same way.

[silverbear]

What's wrong with me? I watch a movie where people are getting killed right and left, read news stories about people getting killed and I just move on down the road. Read a story like this or see an animal even slightly harmed and I'm crushed and have to hold back the tears.

Perhaps, like me, you like dogs more than most people... :D

[Achilleslastand]

Perhaps, like me, you like dogs more than most people... :D

Ive often thought the same thing.

[VietCowboy]

Perhaps, like me, you like dogs more than most people... :D

agreed, even vicious dogs are that way because of their owners / trained behavior.

It saddens me so much the Christmas dogs that end up in the pound 6 weeks later because families impulse buy from pet stores that get their animals from puppy mills and then realize how much work it is to care for a puppy and dump it.

[yimyammer]

Perhaps, like me, you like dogs more than most people... :D

I must confess that I do, not just dogs, all animals.......I think they're just so damn pure in their actions whereas people can be dastardly devious

I've often thought about volunteering at the SPCA, but I can't even sit through one of their commercials, I think I'd walk around balling all the time seeing all those cats and dogs in cages knowing they're living on borrowed time

[VietCowboy]

The principle investigator of this study is coming to my proseminar so we have been reading his articles, and this was JUST released:

Rats have empathy
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/observatory-rats-have-empathy-study-finds.html)

[yimyammer]

The principle investigator of this study is coming to my proseminar so we have been reading his articles, and this was JUST released:

Rats have empathy
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/observatory-rats-have-empathy-study-finds.html)

This cracked me up:

“The females, once they open the door, they open the door every day, and within a few minutes,” Dr. Mason said. “But the male rats would occasionally take off a day.”

I wonder if that day was Sunday during football season