A few years ago I heard that SOC was adding a Dog Handler MOS to Special Forces. My source was fairly reliable, so I may have misunderstood the statement.
He mentioned practicing HALO jumps with his dog strapped to him and the dog releasing his bowels and biting him when he jumped. That sounded like a blast to me so I have been keeping an eye out for mention of it since.
Clearly there is no dog handler MOS (18K?
), but would you guys consider such an addition to the team helpful?
It seems like it would be useful on direct action missions (for room clearing), but I'd imagine it would be unused or even harmful in other missions.