Marine Corps’ top dog promoted to private 1st class Chesty is in a long line of bulldogs to serve as the official mascot of the service whose members are sometimes referred to as Devil Dogs.

Marine Corps military working dogs may be spending more time aboard ships after three highly trained canines returned from a nearly nine-month deployment at sea with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary ...

Amphibious landings require Marines to adjust to the explosive activity of the mission on dry land. This becomes more complex when dogs are involved.

For Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader and his dog Maxx, this experience is routine. Mader is an improvised explosive device detector dog handler with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental ...

Retired military dogs reunite with their former Marine Corps handlers after years apart Two best friends adopt their other best friends during a heartwarming reunion.

Chesty XVI stands at attention during his promotion ceremony at Marine Barracks Washington, Jan. 17, 2024. (Lance Cpl. Chloe McAfee/Marine Corps) MARINE BARRACKS WASHINGTON — Chesty XVI has been ...

The Marine Corps has around 400 IED (Improvised Explosive Device) sniffing dogs that are being decommissioned & need forever homes/families. Most of the dogs are breeds such as: Labradors, Belgian ...

Dogs at War: Caesar, One of the First Marine Dogs in the Pacific For centuries military dogs have played important roles on the battlefield.

A dog can bring out the best in a person — especially when what’s best in him has gone missing for a while. This becomes clear in the story of a military working dog named Chaney and a U.S ...

In a rare, heartwarming event at Lackland AFB, the Marine Corps reunited the family of a fallen South Texan with the military working dog that tried to protect him after he was fatally shot in a ...

If you think robot dogs with flamethrowers are cool, what about a robot dog with an anti-tank rocket launcher on its back? Built as a research concept, one was tested at the US Marine Corps Air ...

US Marine Corps Cpl. Abel Ornelas, a dog handler, has Military Working Dog Cato "play dead" during Yuma Military Appreciation Day in Downtown Historic Yuma on February 16, 2019.