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Video by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge
Nose for Trouble: Military Working Dogs add a dimension to detection
III Marine Expeditionary Force
Feb. 3, 2017 | 1:21
For more than 241 years, Marines have fought and trained side-by-side with their brothers, sisters and allies, but often missed are the military working dogs. Marines have been fighting alongside their canine counterparts since World War II. Since then, they have been working together to accomplish a variety of military tasks, including explosive ordnance detection, combat tracking and the application of controlled aggression.

Interview Subject: Cpl. Andrea Mariani, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a dog handler with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.

(U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge)
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