Working K9 case reviews ~ real-life stories of K9 warriors, crime fighters, protectors, and rescuers as told by their Law Enforcement, Military, and Search & Rescue Handlers and Partners. Your host is Sonja Nordstrom, a retired FBI Special Agent and a Handler and Trainer of Search & Rescue/Recovery K9s for 30+ years.
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Please enjoy this episode with Bill Gaskins of Integrity Noseworx: Bill served in the US Air Force as a Law Enforcement Specialist Military Working Dog Handler of 10 different dogs, Trainer for over 50 operational K9 Teams, and Kennel Master managing kennel operations all over the world. As a canine training instructor, he trained and certified 624 operational Canine Teams for deployment to Iraq…
Dustin Stiles is a US Marine Corp Veteran and one of the first 9 soldiers to handle an Explosive Detection Dog as part of the U.S. Marine Corp off-leash EOD K9 program, also known as a Patrol Explosive Detection Dog Enhanced team. At the time, this was a new program which was designed to allow dogs to operate 50-100+ meters ahead of infantry or EOD teams, significantly increasing safety by…
Paul Bunker has decades of K9 detection experience, having worked all over the world and across many disciplines as a handler, instructor, innovator, and author. Starting more than 40 years ago training narcotics, explosives, and mine detection K9s for the military in both the UK and United States, Paul now predominantly focuses on K9 detection work for conservation, conducting endangered species…
Sometimes even a hero needs a hero - that's where Intermountain Lifeflight steps in. Thanks to my guest Darby Earle, Flight RN, LIfeflight now has a program to provide treatment and helicopter transport for operational K9s when they are injured and need emergency care. Since the program's start, two police K9s have been saved and returned to work the streets with their human partners.
In this episode, Retired CT State Trooper Andy Rebmann, author of the Cadaver Dog Handbook, shares lots of great training information and fantastic K9 capers with his Patrol K9s, Trailing Bloodhounds, and Cadaver Dogs. Hard to even scratch the surface of someone with 50 years experience but it was a super fun conversation with a legend in the industry. Thanks for the chat Andy! Andy's bio: Andy…
Renee (Retired Col. Annette Renee GrandPre) has lived a life of service from start to finish. With military deployments to Kosovo in 2006 and to Kandahar in 2018, she rounded out her military career as a full bird Colonel with too many awards and decorations to enumerate, culminating most recently with the Legion of Merit award. Her civilian work as an ER, Trauma, ICU and Psychiatric care nurse in…
Fred "Big Fred" Fusco of Storm Tactical Consulting Website: stormtactical.wixsite.com/stormtactical IG: www.instagram.com/storm_tactical_consulting/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC0KNW8fzQrOZgCSxQXHoHzA In this episode, Fred shares his training and deployment mission experiences and what it takes for a dog to make the grade in Special Operations. Fred is a retired US Army Special Mission Unit…
Please enjoy this episode with SHANNON KRIEGER, a person who has served the United States with dedication, sacrifice, and honor. From 1999 - 2012, Shannon Krieger was a working K9 handler and trainer for Special Operations Forces (SOF) and a K9 program that would become one of the best practical military initiatives in the last century. That initiative was the Combat Assault Dog (CAD) program in…
ATAK-9 Instructor/Trainer Spotlight #1 - Steve "Zane" Stoops: Welcome Steve of American Tactical Aggregate K-9 (ATAK-9) to K9 Top Tales. Steve has evolved through 3+ decades to become the dog man of dog men. He has vast field experience as a police K9 officer serving 20 years, international contract K9 Handler and Program Manager, and since 2004, a lead trainer for the Special Operations community…
In light of the recent and very tragic Condominium Collapse disaster in Surfside, Florida, I called on a long-time Search and Rescue K9 colleague and friend, Deresa Kenney (Teller,) who is a one of the original FEMA Disaster K9 Handlers. In this episode, Deresa not only tells of her experiences while working large scale disasters such as the Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11 World Trade Center,…
