Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.26.2012
Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, licks the face of his handler, Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, during a convoy in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2012. Mader, an IDD handler with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, volunteered for the job. He’s an infantry mortarman by trade, but deployed to use Maxx to help sniff out IEDs and other explosive......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.26.2012
Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, stands next to his handler, Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, at Combat Outpost Paserlay, July 26, 2012. Mader, with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, volunteered to go through a 5-week school in the States to work with IDDs. He’s an infantry mortarman by trade, but deployed to use Maxx to help sniff out IEDs and other explosive......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.26.2012
Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, stands on the legs of his handler, Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, during a convoy in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2012. Mader, an IDD handler with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, volunteered for the job. He’s an infantry mortarman by trade, but deployed to use Maxx to help sniff out IEDs and other......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.26.2012
Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, rests at the feet of members of 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, during a convoy in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 27, 2012. Maxx’s handler is Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, who volunteered to go through a 5-week school in the States to work with IDDs. He’s an infantry mortarman by trade, but deployed to use......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Buckwalter | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.26.2012
Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, stands next to his handler, Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, at Combat Outpost Paserlay, July 26, 2012. Mader, with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, volunteered to go through a 5-week school in the States to work with IDDs. He’s an infantry mortarman by trade, but deployed to use Maxx to help sniff out IEDs and other explosive......
