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So this week , we have three explosive

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detection dog teams that came in from

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Ansbach Germany and we have one of our

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contract explosive detection dog teams

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that's based here in Graf and beer .

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We tested the military working dog

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teams and all the patrol tasks . Those

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patrol tasks are find the bad guy bite

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the bad guy obedience , face

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gunfire . All the fundamental stuff

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that we do in our training as a

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military working dog team .

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As we're working through the week for

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the certification , we're looking at

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explosive detection based tasks , not

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only in the garrison , but also combat

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or deployment based scenarios that we

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run them through and we evaluate them

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on those tasks .

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Now , I think it's important for the

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general public to understand that uh

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military working dog teams , it's a

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very technical based job . You know ,

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the dog is not a machine , it's not a

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computer . You can't program it to do

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what you need to do . It takes a lot of

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training and a lot of time and a lot of

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effort on a daily basis to be able to

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perform the task that we're asking them

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to do and that we're evaluating in

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these certification events . The thing

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that I put out for them for the

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certification is take it day by day .

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They , they work through the problems .

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If they run into a problem , don't let

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it get them down because it may not be

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any that they've ever experienced

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before . It may be something that they

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have to work through things that they

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learn in that certification . And

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during the development process for the

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certification are lead to an individual

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development plan that they work on

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throughout the year to ensure that they

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become a better handler and a better

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soldier .

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I'm always very proud of what our , our

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folks do day in and day out and it's

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very , it's , we work at very high

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visibility , very high profile mission ,

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day in and day out and our , our

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soldiers meet and exceed that task

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every day . So I'm always proud of them .