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History Matters: The Dogs War

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published November 12, 2019 at 7:45 AM CST
Army Sgt. 1st Class Erika Gordon, kennel master for the 25th Military Police Company, uses a building for cover while her military working dog, Hanna wearing "K9 Storm" body armor, clears a doorway at the military-operations-in-urban-terrain training site
Spc. Cheryl Ransford
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Army Sgt. 1st Class Erika Gordon, kennel master for the 25th Military Police Company, uses a building for cover while her military working dog, Hanna wearing "K9 Storm" body armor, clears a doorway at the military-operations-in-urban-terrain training site
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport
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LSU Shreveport
Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, November 11, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the use of dogs as warriors during war, from ancient times to the present.
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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