Fort Hood Hosts Its First Central Texas Canine Competitors

On March 6-10, Fort Hood, Texas, the 226th Army Police Detachment (Army Working Canine), 720th Army Police Battalion, hosted the primary Central Texas Working Canine Competitors.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffery Pearlstein, kennel grasp for 226th MP Det., was excited to construct sturdy bonds between Fort Hood and outdoors police authorities in the course of the competitors or coaching.

“We’ve bought to construct these foundations,” he said. “It’s extraordinarily very important for the mission. It’s not simply on Fort Hood. It’s outdoors businesses working collectively, coming collectively, and constructing this coaching. Seeing the place we will all come collectively and construct the capabilities of those canine groups. It’s going to be an ideal week to construct partnerships and bonds and to point out that the encircling areas are very important to Fort Hood and we’re very important to them.”

Through the week handlers and their canines from 9 exterior businesses and Fort Hood would possibly present their abilities in the course of the hardest-hitting competitors and the impediment course with alternatives to be taught new coaching methods and carry out life-saving procedures, like a tracheostomy, on their canines.

Workers Sgt. Jay Espinosa, a squad chief for 226th MP Det., said the competitors was for constructing a stronger bond between Fort Hood and outdoors businesses, educating and studying new coaching methods.

“There’s a stigma that everyone trains the identical, however we don’t,” he added. “That’s why we’re doing this. That means all people will get an opportunity to be taught alternative ways of tips on how to practice canines, tips on how to be a coach, or tips on how to be an officer as nicely.”

Rivals Officer David Ashley, a canine handler with the Coryell County Sheriff’s Workplace & his member Kraken; & Spc. Jarima Rivera, 226th MP Det., and her associate Naruto had been excited to do it.

“I like competing,” Rivera said. “I’m a competitor. I don’t prefer to lose.”

“(Kraken) is worked up,”. “He doesn’t get the chance to do that that always. For him to have the ability to get on the market and really carry out what he’s educated to do, he’s going to be actually excited. By the tip of the week, he’s going to be a completely totally different canine”, Ashley stated.

They each had been completely satisfied to compete and be taught from a number of totally different businesses.

“We’re primarily surrounded by the navy and all people does the identical factor,”. “I believe getting away from the identical factor and seeing one thing new from the surface (is) good, seeing how my canine may compete with them”, Rivera stated.

“I’m positive that every company will discover one thing that they’ll take again with them and apply in their very own private self-discipline,” Ashley said. “There’s plenty of little issues that if we haven’t practiced frequently, or with a number of the newer handlers, in the event that they haven’t been taught that beforehand, now is a chance for them to be taught and take it again to their company.”

Rivera and Naruto’s aggressive nature paid off as a result of they received the highest canine’s title within the explosive detection competitors. Officer Andrews Converse and his K9 associate Kova, at Austin Police Division with the College of Texas, had been the winners of the hardest-hitting canine competitors and Deputy Mark Bell & his K9 associate Ekter, with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Division, had been the winners of the narcotics detection competitors.