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Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: Cane assists with Operation Nightmare

By Rebecca Frankel Best Defense Chief Canine Correspondent  Postcard from Nowzad:  Meet Cane a black Labrador retriever and (I’m going to assume) an IDD with the Marines. In this photo, his handler, Lance Cpl. Joseph Graves with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, offers his canine partner a refreshing drink of water in Nowzad, Afghanistan, on June ...

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kowshon Ye/Released
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kowshon Ye/Released
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kowshon Ye/Released

By Rebecca Frankel

By Rebecca Frankel

Best Defense Chief Canine Correspondent 

Postcard from Nowzad: 

Meet Cane a black Labrador retriever and (I’m going to assume) an IDD with the Marines. In this photo, his handler, Lance Cpl. Joseph Graves with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, offers his canine partner a refreshing drink of water in Nowzad, Afghanistan, on June 6. This team is part of Operation Nightmare, a clearing operation led by Afghan National Security Forces and supported by the Marines of 2/8. 

Rebecca Frankel is special projects editor at FP

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
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