Articles: Military working dogs

It’s been a long time since I’ve hung out on the radio with the one and only Radio Hall of Famer John Landecker. Listen HERE as we both reminisce about how back at WLS-AM (I was in my early 20’s at the time)  how I laid an egg, or John did as I covered a…

Memorial Day is more than about picnics. It’s supposed to be about remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, and celebrating those who fought for our freedom. Soldiers include military working dogs. “No one knows how many lives have been saved (by military working dogs) but many thousands, hundreds of thousands…

Senior military working dogs can be adopted. And what a great way to demonstrate your patriotism as well as to save these dogs, all of them have served with honor. To be clear, according to the U.S, military, around 90 percent of the military working dogs are adopted to heir handlers following their combined service…

Ron Aiello, president of the non-profit U.S. War Dog Association, estimates that American military working dogs conservatively saved over 10,000 lives in Vietnam alone, and that number likely doubled or tripled in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, at any given moment, there are roughly 3,000 military working dogs working somewhere around the globe. The number of military…

The United States Postal service just released their 2019 Special Stamp Program.  Included will be military working dogs. The Postal Service honors the nation’s brave and loyal military working dogs with this new booklet of 20 stamps. Each block of four stamps features one stamp of each of the following breeds — German shepherd, Labrador…

Memorial Day is more than about picnics and a day off work – it’s about remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, and celebrating those who fought for our freedom. Soldiers include military working dogs. “No one knows how many lives have been saved (by military working dogs) but many thousands,…

Dogs teach us so much. A dog named Rex taught one U.S. Marine about how to love in the movie “Megan Levy.” The film, based on a true story, was a feature shown in theaters, and is now readily available at places like Amazon Prime. In 2005, Leavey and Rex they were deployed to Fallujah…

Terry Beck had a lifelong love of the military and joined the Marine Corps in 1966. His Basic Training was at Camp Pendleton and Special Forces K9 Training with K9 Seato at Camp Lejeune. Terry and Seato made the ultimate sacrifice on December 20, 1967, in Vietnam. Let us never forget those who gave their…

Ron Aiello, president of the non-profit U.S. War Dog Association, estimates that American military working dogs conservatively saved over 10,000 lives in Vietnam alone, and that number likely doubled or tripled in Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of human lives saved by dogs over the years, impossible to calculate, but easily hundreds of thousands. Aiello was…

Victoria Stilwell is a favorite guest of mine, not only because she’s excellent on the air, but also because of the respect I have for her. HEAR our conversation from Steve Dale’s Pet World, WGN radio about her new series, “Guardians of the Night.” What about this show touches me? “Guardians of the Night” celebrates the everyday…