Marine Lance Cpl. Stuart Ferreri, a dog handler with Guard Force Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and 21-year-old native of Northglenn, Colo., and Fancy, an improvised explosive device detection dog, search the outside of a truck commuting past Checkpoint Drahbiash while Afghan National Police patrolman Dost Mohammad examines the contents of its bed during Operation Gridlock here, March 21, 2012. On deployment in Helmand province’s Garmsir district, the ‘America’s Battalion’ dog handlers and their improvised explosive device detection dogs live, travel and work together. In a
Marine Lance Cpl. Stuart Ferreri, a dog handler with Guard Force Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and 21-year-old native of Northglenn, Colo., and Fancy, an improvised explosive device detection dog, search the outside of a truck commuting past Checkpoint Drahbiash while Afghan National Police patrolman Dost Mohammad examines the contents of its bed during Operation Gridlock here, March 21, 2012. On deployment in Helmand province’s Garmsir district, the ‘America’s Battalion’ dog handlers and their improvised explosive device detection dogs live, travel and work together. In a combat environment largely devoid of the safety and comforts of home, the energetic Labrador retrievers are neither pets nor expendable objects. They’re faithful friends and saviors of Marines. Since arriving here in November, IED detection dogs have found four drug caches and two IEDs. Dogs of War, Friends and Saviors of Marines in Afghanistan 120321-M-MM918-010
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