Military working dogs
Subject in Government
Military working dogs has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Shawn Ryan Show. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Pete BlaberRetired U.S. Army Delta Force commander, author of The Mission, The Men, and Me and The Common Sense Way, later a biotech executive
Blaber says his unit chose to use operators rather than outside specialists as dog handlers, a practice he believes remains unique.
“we believed that you should make operators handlers so and as far as i know that still is the only one that uses operators as handlers”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #294 Pete Blaber - Part 2: Delta Force Commander on Pablo Escobar, Takur Ghar, and Pat Tillman (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:48:06
Blaber says the dogs his squadron introduced in 1999 were the first operational military working dogs in the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.
“Those were the first operational dogs since Vietnam”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #294 Pete Blaber - Part 2: Delta Force Commander on Pablo Escobar, Takur Ghar, and Pat Tillman (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:45:50
Podcasts
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#294 Pete Blaber - Part 2: Delta Force Commander on Pablo Escobar, Takur Ghar, and Pat TillmanThe Shawn Ryan Show · Apr 6, 2026 · 6 h 60 min
Retired Delta Force commander Pete Blaber tells Shawn Ryan how toxic leadership caused Pat Tillman's death, and recounts the Iraq invasion's false intelligence.