AFMC Command News

  • Military working dog team unleash skills at Guardian Response 24

    Coordinated by U.S. Army Reserve 78th Training Division, the exercise brings together more than 5,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines from the Active, Guard and Reserve components as well as Department of Defense civil service employees and contractor personnel each year.

  • Military working dog retires after over eight years of service

    A retirement ceremony for Morgen, a military working dog with more than eight years of service, was held Feb. 24 at the 88th Security Forces facility on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The retirement was followed by his adoption by former handler Staff Sgt. Pablo Gonzalez.

  • Actor Channing Tatum visits JBSA, Military Working Dogs

    Channing Tatum, star and co-director of the upcoming movie “Dog,” visited Joint Base San Antonio Feb. 9 on a USO tour to promote the movie, visit with military members, as well as learn about the missions of various units.

  • 'End of watch:' Defenders, family pay final respects to MWD Cvoky

    Retired military working dog Cvoky (See-vokee) was honored earlier this month during an end of watch ceremony in front of family members and fellow Defenders from the 75th Security Forces Squadron here. The 116-pound Belgian Malinois had been suffering from lymphoma cancer over the past few months

  • Robot dogs arrive at Tyndall AFB

    The robot dogs, designed by Ghost Robotics and Immersive Wisdom, are the first of their kind to be integrated onto a military installation and one of many innovation-based initiatives to begin at Tyndall Air Force Base, coined the “Installation of the Future.”

  • 75th SFS Military Working Dogs train

    Military working dogs train as much as their human counterparts. Explosive detection dogs are brought through a field course where detonated explosive making materials are placed in various places for them to sniff out. Drug detection dogs train in sniffing out drugs in vehicles, buildings and the

  • Joint training boosts working dog programs

    Hill’s 75th Security Forces Squadron dog handlers and their military working dogs recently teamed with local and regional partners for a joint training exercise on base to detect homemade and military grade explosives.

  • New Defender SUVs provide cooler, smoother ride for canines

    The Air Force Security Forces Center’s vehicle program delivered the first of new military working dog patrol vehicles to Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, as part of their initiative to modernize Defender equipment across the Air Force.

  • AFSFC Launches Software to Monitor Health of Military Working Dogs

    The Air Force Security Forces Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has launched the Kennel Health Assessment 2.0 project officially as of July 8, 2020. The purpose of KHA 2.0 is to ascertain the holistic state of all of the kennels across the Air Force to ensure the wellbeing of all Military

  • Handlers form bonds with their military working dogs

    Military working dogs and their handlers spend almost every day together, working and training, forming a strong bond. Having that bond is important as the handler's voice is the one they listen to and it creates a trust between the two.

  • Military working dogs honored with new forever stamp

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – Members of the Security Forcescommunity and the U.S. Postal Service gathered at the Military Working Dog Monument here Aug. 15 for a local ceremony to unveil the new U.S. Postal Service MWD forever stamp.