Brett Simon

We evaluate the dog for being sound around people, other dogs, noises, cars, and riding in the bus, we take them to the store and walk them around. If they keep progressing through that, then they spend the next three to four months getting their basic formal obedience done.

I was chosen to work with explosive tracking dogs in Iraq. Once I arrived in Iraq in Baghdad, I was shipped out to Mosul, where I worked with the striker brigade working on the first tracking explosive dogs that were attempted in Iraq.