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Special Forces Green Berets show off skills
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/03/27/1080822?sac=Mil
"For decades, the Green Berets have been the quiet professionals of Fort Bragg, spiriting away to war zones to conduct covert operations or working with foreign governments to train commandos to fight drug cartels, communist rebels and terrorists................"
Nice little story for your morning enjoyment.
greenberetTFS
03-27-2011, 05:27
Special Forces Green Berets show off skills
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/03/27/1080822?sac=Mil
"For decades, the Green Berets have been the quiet professionals of Fort Bragg, spiriting away to war zones to conduct covert operations or working with foreign governments to train commandos to fight drug cartels, communist rebels and terrorists................"
Nice little story for your morning enjoyment.
Interesting take on why this was accomplish..........Is this the first time they've done this at all or recently ?..............;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Buffalobob
03-27-2011, 06:06
Now there's a good dog!!
Sgt. 1st. Class Ignacio Estrada, a Special Forces canine handler, described how important the Green Berets' dogs are to finding hidden improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whenever a dog finds an explosive, it's rewarded with a toy or a small treat.
To underscore his point, Estrada described a recent deployment to Afghanistan where his dog discovered a deadly IED in a roadway. As the dog continued to search the area, he found a second explosive that was meant to hit incoming rescuers. Farther up the road, the dog sniffed out a third booby trap.
"That night, I gave him a steak," Estrada said.
Interesting take on why this was accomplish..........Is this the first time they've done this at all or recently ?..............;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Teddy,
This is a fairly often occurence.
This is a fairly often occurence.
And the memory of SP5 James Gabriel, Jr (RIP) lives on! ;)
And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Eagle5US
03-27-2011, 07:56
OK...WTF is a "Special Forces Canine Handler"?
Am I missing a new MOS track? Have I been away THAT long?:confused:
Eagle
OK...WTF is a "Special Forces Canine Handler"?
Am I missing a new MOS track? Have I been away THAT long?:confused:
Eagle
Must be a take-off on 18Z???
Dozer523
03-27-2011, 08:28
OK...WTF is a "Special Forces Canine Handler"?
Am I missing a new MOS track? Have I been away THAT long?:confused:
Eagle 18K?
"For decades, the Green Berets have been the quiet professionals of Fort Bragg, spiriting away to war zones to conduct covert operations or working with foreign governments to train commandos to fight drug cartels, communist rebels and terrorists..............".My momma -- who is alert and an astute woman (we need more lerts and stutes) -- pointed out:
"If you have to tell people your special, you're just trying to convince yourself."
OK...WTF is a "Special Forces Canine Handler"?
Am I missing a new MOS track? Have I been away THAT long?:confused:
Eagle
DOC,
Yeap and that Texas Sun has gotten to your head again. Take your meds :D
It is a SF NCO that has gone to Canine handler course and then goes to or really gets his dog while at the course and they work together for sometime. Then they come back to their Group and deploy with there BN. It is a Ten times better system than getting a borrowed dog from some sister service. It's not a NEW MOS, just a new ASI for the NCO.
I just wished that we got EOD tech within each BN. Guys outisde of Group, you have to "Train up" at a fire base while doing missions.
Nice to see USASFC getting more of the Community involed with SF. I know we have always done it. While I was at SWC I think there was something a Quarter, but never in the paper. Only time SF was in the FAYOBS was somethng bad hit the news.
Job well done Guys!!
Eagle5US
03-27-2011, 08:37
DOC,
Yeap and that Texas Sun has gotten to your head again. Take your meds :D
It is a SF NCO that has gone to Canine handler course and then goes to or really gets his dog while at the course and they work together for sometime. Then they come back to their Group and deploy with there BN. It is a Ten times better system than getting a borrowed dog from some sister service. It's not a NEW MOS, just a new ASI for the NCO.
That's just friggin COOL!!!
Wonder if they would let their PA go - I sign in next week! :D
Eagle
Utah Bob
03-27-2011, 17:06
The men who stare at dogs.;)
Wonder if they would let their PA go -
I heard they did...once...but the PA married the dog in a PETA sanctioned civil ceremony and then sued the DOD when they wouldn't recognize his request for partnership bennies...but I understand that may change soon. :rolleyes: :D :D
Richard :munchin
Golf1echo
03-27-2011, 19:03
Interesting DoD image sent to Soldier Systems, posted March13 2011 on their blog
Special Forces Soldier Helo Casting during E W 11
I heard they did...once...but the PA married the dog in a PETA sanctioned civil ceremony and then sued the DOD when they wouldn't recognize his request for partnership bennies...but I understand that may change soon. :rolleyes: :D :D
Richard :munchin
DAMN, RICHARD!!!
Interesting DoD image sent to Soldier Systems, posted March13 2011 on their blog
Special Forces Soldier Helo Casting during E W 11
There's a better pic of the dog who Freefalls. highly recommend that you muzzle him before you exit the aircraft.... wouldn't want the JM to get bit cuz he put you off the DZ..
Eagle5US
03-28-2011, 04:06
I heard they did...once...but the PA married the dog in a PETA sanctioned civil ceremony and then sued the DOD when they wouldn't recognize his request for partnership bennies...but I understand that may change soon. :rolleyes: :D
Richard :munchin
Cute-
Y'know, it's all fun and games until you need your Viagra Rx refilled:D
Eagle
There's a better pic of the dog who Freefalls. highly recommend that you muzzle him before you exit the aircraft.... wouldn't want the JM to get bit cuz he put you off the DZ..
Sir, do you mean this pic?
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Cute-
Y'know, it's all fun and games until you need your Viagra Rx refilled:D
Eagle
About that Rx... :D :D
Richard
Do they still have the "Friends of SOF". This sounds very similar.
Do they still have the "Friends of SOF". This sounds very similar.
For Viagra Rx refills Or dog handler school???
:confused:
...dog handler...
We were arrested once by the SPs at NKP for using our "dog handler" skills on one of their Shepherds...but that's a story to be told among really close friends over a beer or two or...;)
Richard :munchin
For Viagra Rx refills Or dog handler school???
:confused:
HaHA.
Friends of SOF seemed to be a good organization. Of course we also had a local garden club that liked to visit the wind tunnel. Friends of SOF I can support but give me a break a freaking garden club.
I knew a Phase III instructor that static-lined with his Lab in a CIWI bag. The dog must not have liked jumping very much because the dog's bowels and kidneys both evacuated in copious amounts. (Rumour has it that the instructor ensured that the dog had not eaten nor drank any water for the entire day before the jump, but some industrious students both fed and watered the dog about 3 hours before the jump). The defication stayed in the bag but covered the dog. The urine also covered the dog, but had the additional benefit of leaking through the CIWI bag all over the instructor.
I do not think that the dog ever jumped again.
Sir, do you mean this pic?
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Thanks for the pic...
Please don't call me Sir, I work for a living..;)
Do they still have the "Friends of SOF". This sounds very similar.
Al,
We still have Friends of SOF.
I knew a Phase III instructor that static-lined with his Lab in a CIWI bag.
When I had Tower Branch and HHC 1-507th, our BAC companies had dogs as mascots and all of them were airborne qualified with diplomas and jump wings.
Such mascots were an old tradition in the 507th going back to their original formation and training in Alliance, NE, prior to movement to Europe for Overlord.
The dogs were a great motivator for the students going through the BAC; would run every morning up front with the Co Cdr, guide-on bearer, and keeper of the wings; and would be jumped with the class during Jump Week. We would just put a modified rucksack harness on the dogs with lowering line, attach them under the reserve like a ruck, and then they were jumped by company cadre; never had one defecate, urinate, or bite anyone during a jump. The dogs would be led around among the students while they were waiting to board the a/c and it had a great calming effect on them.
The dogs were also one of the best therapies for a student who was either struggling with the training or with a personal matter - you would go by the CQ desk and see a student or two sitting there on the floor with the dog, petting and talking to them and among themselves; better than a psych or a chaplain for many of them.
Richard :munchin