Tracker. (Photo Credit: US Army)
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Meet Tracker, a five-year-old,
sixty-pound Belgian Malinois and a graduate of the Military Working Dog
School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He’s also one of the Army’s
first five openly transgendered military police dogs, assigned to
the 42nd Military Police Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
“We took to each other pretty quickly,” said Spc. Jeffrey Grassley, a
military policeman and dog handler partnered with Tracker. “I mean,
it’s a little weird that they tell me to call him a ‘him,’ since he’s
obviously a female dog, and there was that time last month when he was
laid up for a few days after he gave birth to a litter of puppies, but
we’ve really forged a close working friendship.”
Tracker, who was raised as a female dog under the name Regina, first
identified as a male during the initial breeding and selection process
the military uses to screen potential military working dogs.
“Looking back now, it was pretty obvious that she was — sorry, He
— was a little different,” said Tech Sgt. Walter Flaherty, one of
Tracker’s trainers. “He didn’t really say much, obviously, but you could
just sort of tell.”... Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/12/army-military-working-dogs/#ixzz3LNpmJXo4
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