Pretty bad-a--.
If the dog can't get your leg or arm,
it's going to go for wherever it can get a solid bite.
Hi, I'm Terry Adams,
and this is Tiny,
a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois.
She is a trained dual-purpose dog,
trained in tracking, detection for narcotics,
and apprehension.
I am an eight-year Army dog handler
with also 10 years of civilian handling
and instructing experience.
Today, we'll be looking at military dogs
in movies and TV and judge how real they are.
Look left.
Cerberus, left.
Really, honestly, it's pretty spot-on.
The only thing that would be different
would be, in my experience,
is directing the dog with a laser
versus letting them free-sniff.
You know, the dog being able to climb the ladder
and hop into the window
and then search from there, with direction.
All that's realistic.
He's got something.
That is totally realistic.
If the dog is sent into a building
and sees a threat,
then the job of the dog is to apprehend.
The dog does target the arm.
We do train them to apprehend from the arm and the leg.
The things that we use are going to be a hidden sleeve.
In this scene,
the subject is actually using a hidden sleeve.
That's how he's taking that bite
without actually being bitten.
Check here.
I found them. Two bodies.
When it comes to tracking a scent, a dog is awesome,
especially in the conditions that they were in.
The canopy holds a lot of odor,
which makes it even easier for dogs to track.
When it comes to my military experience,
we have tracked more or less, not insurgents,
but we track more explosives.
From the source of the explosive,
to maybe where someone is sitting, ready to ambush.
So yes, you can use clothing
to search for a familiar smell for the dog.
It doesn't have to be a living person.
It can also be a dead person as well.
So you know, if the dog can't get to the arm or leg,
then they're going to go for another area, for sure.
You see the two Belgian Malinois being worked together.
The Belgian Malinois is an awesome dog.
Before, the shepherd was the go-to dog.
Now the Belgian Malinois has replaced the shepherd,
based off of speed, stamina, size.
They're not as big as a shepherd would be.
Pretty bad-a--.
But this is not as common to teach.
Scaling the wall to bite the subject is very realistic.
In the military,
it wouldn't be so realistic,
only because if we had a threat up high,
You see a lot of cross fire
from a lot of the good guys and the bad guys.
The dogs probably wouldn't have last
very long in the real world.
Probably within after the first or maybe second bite,
they would've been shot by someone.
Realistically, we wouldn't put our dogs
freely in danger of a lot of that.
They'll be sent to a specific target
and then brought back to us
to make sure that we're not getting any cross fire.
These dogs are really desensitized to gunfire.
Would've been also great to watch them have ear and eye pro,
based off of the new technology that's provided today.
I'm going to give that a 7 out of 10.
There's a lot of shooting going on,
and normally a handler isn't going to put their dog
in harm's way of that many guns.
Oh, and Dennis,
can you clear out some of your people for us?
Confuses the dog's nose.
They're searching a building.
They have everyone leave.
Normally, we would not necessarily detain everyone,
but we would isolate everyone to a certain area.
So in that way, we know no one's physically going to harm us
as we search the building.
Or try to figure out a way to throw the dog off
as we're doing it.
This is a DEA dog.
And they're looking for meth narcotic.
The handling from the handler wasn't all that great.
He did a lot of touching stuff.
In the real world, especially in the civilian world,
a little more than military,
it's a big liability to sit there
and touch the objects
that you're wanting the dog to search,
because you can cause the dog to give a false indication.
You want to minimize, as much as possible,
your manipulation of the dog.
So when conducting a a building search,
we would let the dog free-search.
Then we'll come back and detail.
When we detail, we would stay off of the object
but point towards where we want the dog to search.
How long have we got to be quiet down here?
They're gone.
We're good.
So here we see the dog doesn't indicate
on possible narcotics.
Just means that the dog wasn't in the best area for a sniff.
Now with the narcotics being a floor under,
the dogs can catch the odor, with it being a floor under,
but it would have to be in a productive space,
which are areas where odor collects,
and the dog can then track it to source.
We'll give that handler a 3 out of 10
for his handling skills.
Hey, kid, stop.
The dog is barking.
That can be a sign of the dog having odor to a explosive.
We like a little bit calmer alerts
when it comes to explosives.
Just because of how volatile they are.
And with something like that,
it's either a mine or a IED, right?
Improvised explosive.
We don't want to do anything that can trigger
that explosive to go off.
Most times, our indicators are going to be
a down or a sit instead of a barking,
just because we want that calm behavior.
And based off of the placement of the odor
is how they indicate.
So if it's something that's lower to the ground,
they will perform down.
If it was something that was higher up into a ceiling,
or high, placed into a wall,
they're doing a sit.
Seek, Dex,
seek.
Come here. Seek.
Attaboy.
Seek.
You see that the handler says to the dog to go seek.
It is a common word.
Seek, zoek,
find it.
These are all common words
that are used throughout the military and civilian
to go and search for an odor.
What is that?
You see that there's a Labrador.
This is a common choice of breed
for an explosive detection dog.
The reason why they make really good
explosive detection dogs
are one, nice in nature, very high-driven,
very good at hunting odors,
whether if that's an explosive, narcotics,
or even a bird.
The handling of the dog would've been different,
definitely.
The dog would've been a little further out
from the handler.
Most of these dogs are used to clear routes
where there were old minefields,
or just routes that are known
for insurgents to place IEDs.
We would want the dog to be a good distance
so that we can save the handler,
just in case the dog trips the explosive.
All right, good boy, good boy.
No booms.
No booms, good dog.
Words of encouragement are a big thing for dogs.
In these situations,
you're not able to reward the dog physically with a tug,
or a ball, some sort of toy.
When we train these dogs,
we teach these dogs that explosives or narcotics
equal this big reward, this toy.
And so that's why they are so willing and eager
to go out and find these explosives.
In the scene, you see that the dog
is a little bit more vocal.
It's not a deal-breaker.
Biggest thing is we understand that these dogs
are working off a motivation of a toy,
which is what causes the frustration,
and that's where you get those barks from.
I would give it a 8 out of 10.
Reason for not having a 10 out of 10
is based off of the handling of the dog.
Found something.
Good boy.
The way she's utilizing the dog is all correct.
We didn't necessarily use flags.
We use chem lights though.
If we did do a flag,
it was a makeshift flag
out of rocks and reflective tape,
where we would just drop it at a known area of interest.
And we used the chem light
to mark how far from said IED.
Clear.
Leavey, check the vehicle.
I've actually been in a situation similar to this,
without the explosion.
My dog passed an IED because of the wind current.
We were traveling north to south,
and the wind current was going north to south.
So with the odor being pushed past us,
and me and my dog actually walked right over an IED.
My dog caught it about 50 yards.
And he picked it up going back.
But the IED was rigged for MRAPs,
and our little weight wasn't big enough to trigger it.
But we could've definitely been in a situation like that.
Megan Leavey and her dog partner were wounded
from an IED.
Military uses dogs commonly for this reason,
to be able to protect soldiers from being hurt or killed.
Which is one of the reasons
why we train the dog to work at a greater distance from us.
She was a little bit on the luckier side.
Based off my experience, I have lost a dog from an IED.
I'm going to give it a 10 out of 10.
Based off the equipment,
based off of the situation itself.
You remember me?
Your favorite chew toy from 2015?
A lot of the military working dogs
are fairly temperamental.
I definitely have a few bites on me currently
from dogs when I was in the service.
That going in, leashing them,
and they decided to go ahead and bite me.
So we do use muzzles quite a bit
for more aggressive dogs.
Typically in the beginning, when you first meet your dog,
you're not meeting them with a muzzle on,
just because of the establishment of a bond.
We don't want to stress the dog out with having a muzzle on.
Now, if it's a very high-risk dog,
then yes, we would put a muzzle on.
Just because we know that that particular dog
is more than likely going to bite you.
Me and you are going to go on a little road trip.
1,500 miles.
Just act like your daddy's looking down on us from above.
As the handler approaches this dog, he approaches slowly.
We would want to approach a little bit more confidently,
just to show the dog that we're not giving off any fear.
So the dog doesn't take advantage.
The voice, the way he's speaking to the dog, is all correct.
We don't want to come in with a harsh tone.
But we also don't want to come in with a passive tone as well.
We want to come in with a confident, inviting tone.
All right, I'm going to leash you up.
All right?
Be cool.
He gets down to the dog's level.
Wouldn't necessarily get down to the dog's level,
as in face to face.
Only because that's a very big risk.
But also, we don't want to come in
and hover the dog as a dominant
and showing a dominance play.
Realistically, he could do this,
but he would put himself into more of a dangerous situation
with having a dog right in his face.
What are you all so scared of?
She's mellowed out big-time.
Hey man, I forgot to tell you
not to touch her on the ears, man.
I left that part out.
Most dogs don't really care about their ears.
It's just every dog has its own trigger.
It could be its paws, it could be leg,
rubbing the side of them,
putting your hand over their head.
And this particular dog, its trigger was its ears.
Hey, we weaned her off the Prozac,
so she might get moody from time to time.
This dog's on Prozac for PTSD.
You have some that when they retire, totally normal,
regular, they can really turn into a pet,
a household pet.
My last military working dog,
he actually went to a home
as a retirement, a home with kids.
And he's been doing great.
This particular dog is suffering from PTSD and anxiety
based off of its military experience
and based off of the loss of its handler as well.
Rating-wise for this scene, I'm going to give a 10 out 10.
It's very realistic for a dog with PTSD
and aggression issues
and with a trigger, of touching the ears.
No, no, let's go.
It wouldn't really be realistic
to send a dog on another dog.
One, because we don't train that,
because it would be more of a distraction,
especially when it comes to military working dogs.
And even as law enforcement,
they wouldn't want that,
with the dog not having training to do that.
This would be more of a natural reaction,
versus training.
You're OK.
With Sam being a German shepherd,
it is fairly common for a protection dog.
Dog is very loyal.
It is a great protector.
And it is a dog that will give his life to protect you.
This scene, I would rate a 3 out of 10.
Really, we would never send a dog on another dog.
OK Max, go search.
It is an option to have the dog search free of handler.
One of the things with that is you do take a big risk,
because you do have, like,
you have the kid with the ball behind a corner.
You know, there's a little bit less control.
So normally you'll see a dog on a very long line,
like 30 to 50 feet worth of a line,
to be able to control a little bit better,
just in case you do have that sort of situation.
You see the dog, he indicates on the weapons.
That's very common with an explosive dog.
We do teach it black powder,
which is in most weapons.
And smokeless powder, which is in weapons as well.
He probably missed that guy that was around the corner,
because he was overwhelmed from the odor
of the weapons that were down there.
My rating for this, for "Max,"
is definitely going to be a 10 out of 10.
Everybody has their way of searching,
and that's one of the techniques,
and he performed it very well.
Based off the clips that we watched today,
my favorite scene is going to be the "John Wick."
We don't see that particular style happening,
with all that action, but it's amazing to watch those dogs.
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