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Military Working Dogs getting new home on JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
March 19, 2024
People with shovels at a construction site, and a dog.

Military Working Dog Scheduling Cell keeps senior leaders safe
March 1, 2024
handler and his dog in a park with tall buildings behind them.

U.S. Military Working Dog Teams observe 10th anniversary of monument
November 1, 2023
U.S. Military Working Dog Teams Monument 10th Anniversary Commemoration

U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity conducts test of veterinary anesthesia apparatus on military working dogs
June 6, 2023
MTEAC conducts test of veterinary anesthesia apparatus on military working dogs

Mission Monday: Military Working Dog Management System
January 23, 2023
Graphic of Robert Marure

A Day in Dad’s Life: Gold Star family member spends day with MWD trainers
January 3, 2023
A group of people posing for a photo with a statue of a person

Military Working Dogs: JBSA’s four-legged defenders
September 16, 2021
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Taylor Bryant, 902nd Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, runs with his MWD during a hurdle training exercise

International military students tour military working dog facilities
July 8, 2021
Student plays with puppy.

Four-legged students to train in new ‘classroom’ designed for explosive detection
June 4, 2021
Ribbon cutting at new MWD lab.

Teams protect hundreds of military working dogs from weather in Texas
February 18, 2021
Airman 1st Class Dominic A. Fallon, a student in the Military Working Dog Handlers course, walks one of the dogs being kept warm inside at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex Feb. 15, 2021.

Paw Prints in the Field: The History of K9 Veterans
March 11, 2020
Military Working Dogs

JBSA-Lackland, USPS San Antonio honor Military Working Dogs
August 16, 2019
U.S. Air Force members, Robert Carr (center), Post Master of San Antonio, and local volunteers of the K-9 program pose for a photo during the Military Working Dog Stamp ceremony Aug. 15, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Medina Annex. The stamp honors dogs who have served in the U.S. armed forces since the U.S. Army created the War Dog Program K-9 Corps and began training man’s best friend in March 1942.

Retired MWDs looking for family, homes, couches
July 26, 2019
Jerry Britt (left), 341st Training Squadron adoptions and dispositions coordinator, professor Robert Klesges, and Melissa Little, 59th Medical Wing behavioral health preventive medicine researcher, pose for a photo with a military working dog (MWD) June 26, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

MWD Foster Puppy Program raises future four-legged warriors
May 23, 2019
Regina Johnson, 341st Training Wing MWD breeding program foster consultant, hands a military working dog puppy to Staff Sgt. Carlos Zapata, 341st Training Squadron logistics NCO, April 26, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The Joint Base San Antonio military working dog foster puppy program places fosters with four-legged future warriors for six months before they enter the next phase of specialized training.

Joint Base San Antonio purchases, trains DOD military working dogs
April 5, 2019
Senior Airman Eliot Tremblay, 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, and his MWD partner, Afra, searches a car for possible explosives during an exercise at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, May 28, 2018.

Military Working Dog care even better with opening of rehab facility and recovery kennels
July 2, 2018
(From left) Col. Kevin Nemelka, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Johnson, Brig. Gen. Erik Torring, Lt. Col. Jacque Parker, Air Force Maj. David Temple and Maj. Andrea Henderson cut the ribbon to the new Sports Medicine Rehabilitation Facility and Hospital Recovery Kennels at the Lt. Col. Daniel E Holland Military Working Dog Hospital June 28. The new facility provides flooring and lighting more suited to protect post-operative patients and minimize their stress. It includes a quiet room, large exercise area and an aquatic therapy room.

San Antonio Rampage Honor Four-Legged Hero
March 26, 2018
MWD Sonja

Military working dogs continue to serve and sacrifice
March 13, 2018
Senior Airman Jordan Fuller, 802nd Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, and his MWD, Rocco, perform maneuvers Feb. 23, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Medina Annex. Handlers regularly practice obedience training with their working dogs to increase their team cohesiveness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Johnny Saldivar/released)

Center for Security Forces selects 2017 Sailor of the Year
February 16, 2018
Job well done!

MWD hospital keeps canine warriors fit for duty
February 11, 2018
Military Working Dog SStash stands for the first time on his new outfitted leg brace at LTC Daniel E. Holland Memorial Military Working Dog Hospital at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, April 2, 2015. Previously, SStash has been unable to put weight on his injured leg, so the leg brace will help speed his recovery.