Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: Night Ops in Bagram with Tex
By Rebecca Frankel Best Defense Chief Canine Correspondent Adding to our Summer Postcard Series is the above photo of MWD Tex and his handler, Staff Sgt. Steven Owen, from the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group, conducting a night operations search at a Traffic Control Point (TCP) outside of Bagram Airfield on April 28. Working TCPs ...
By Rebecca Frankel
By Rebecca Frankel
Best Defense Chief Canine Correspondent
Adding to our Summer Postcard Series is the above photo of MWD Tex and his handler, Staff Sgt. Steven Owen, from the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Group, conducting a night operations search at a Traffic Control Point (TCP) outside of Bagram Airfield on April 28. Working TCPs are a fundamental part of an MWD team’s assignment — for bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs — especially if their deployment includes patrolling larger military bases or working in and out of urban areas. TCPs "provide an unpredictable security posture" and handlers like Owen and dogs like Tex select random vehicles and sweep them "for contraband and all occupants [are] identified and checked."
Rebecca Frankel is special projects editor at FP.
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