So I have been out of the loop lately because well life got crazy, AGAIN! A few weeks ago I did a 15 day photo shoot for Fiesta in San Antonio and the Texas Cavaliers. One of our many stops is Lackland Airforce Base for their Fiesta ceremonies. It is ALL military as you can expect and it is VERY official and formal. All soldiers on the base do a march around ceremony and it is really cool. Lackland is the only military base in the United States that trains all military service dogs and TSA and other governmental dogs. They provide trained military working dogs (MWDs) used in patrol, drug and explosive detection, mine detection, all combat, and specialized mission functions for the U.S. military, Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies.
In these pictures is Is Captain William Mott who is Commander, 37th Training Wing, Lackland Air Force Base. Basically he is the head person at Lackland. Lackland Air Force base is the largest training wing in the U.S. Air Force. He is responsible for four primary training missions, which graduate more than 86,000 soldiers annually, in addition to providing base operations and support to 45,000 soldiers who live on base. He’s the big cheese basically. Captain Mott regularly works with the military dog training program and takes in the puppies from when they are 8 weeks until they are 6 months, where then they begin to get trained. The puppies live with you on base and required to go EVERYWHERE with you and your family. This is Nodar in the pictures, which means no radar signal or something military and flying. I would like to encourage all of us that Nodar was not perfect and chewed through a leash while at the ceremony! I felt a bit better about Ella. You will see the soldiers doing the official march off, and the military training unit walk by. Look at the size of the dogs!
