Dog Health Questions: How do you work with military working dogs?

i want to join the national guard and also become a professional dog training but now ive been thinking why not put the two together but i was wondering what i would have to do to work with dogs in the military or can the national guard even work with dogs?

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You would have to be in law enforcement in one of the branches to work with K-9. MP, SF etc. The problem is I know for a fact that active units such as MP's have dogs and use them and the handlers are sent to school for it but I have never heard of or know of a Guard unit that keeps dogs. Your only there two days a month and two weeks out of the year unless your deployed so I don't think they are going to spend the money to keep a K-9 unit in the Guard for two days a month of use unless you deploy and are K-9 qualified. But in any case yes, you can get the school but only after joining and being accepted for the training.

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• Based on what I saw in Iraq the only ones that I know of that use dogs is EOD. I'm not sure the National Guard has EOD units so check on that. I flew in a C-130 with an EOD dog - seemed like a nice little guy. Basically what they're trained for is to sniff out explosive residue on bombs and probably also people. I remember dogs coming out on mission a few times when we entered homes but since we (Infantry) weren't handling them I don't exactly remember what the people controlling them did. Definitely an EOD thing though, but not sure if every EOD unit has dogs or not. You'll be in charge of feeding and taking care of them too as EOD and and the dogs are like close buddies and ****. Seemed like a cool job


• You enlist to be an MP
  
  Servie 3 or 4 years, make E-4
  
  Then apply for K-9 school.
  
  2. As a Guardsmen, you would have to find a National Guard MP unit that had working dogs assigned to it and then move to that state and find a job.
  
  3. Working dog handler, is NOT an entry level job.


• Just in case someone with military experience does not come by and give you an answer - I would give an educated guess of MP, or security forces.