Overview
Warrior Pups tells the inside story of how America transforms a select group of puppies into highly skilled canine anti-terrorists. Author Jeff Kamen was granted unprecedented access to the high security facilities at Lackland Air Force Base where the US military breeds and trains the dogs that are helping America win the global life-or-death struggle against terror. Warrior Pups takes readers into the K9 maternity suite where the pups are born, the loving foster homes where they are raised, and the training spaces where their natural abilities are molded and honed. In addition, Kamen profiles the exceptional dog handlers and trainers from all branches of the military who are deeply committed to making the US Military Working Dog program the best of its kind. It requires enormous courage to walk behind a dog into the hidden enemy's crosshairs. The only way the handlers can summon that kind of daily heroism is faith in the rock solid abilities of their warrior pups.
Full Product Details
Author: Jeff Kamen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: The Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493022250
ISBN 10: 1493022253
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 January 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Postponed Indefinitley
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Reviews
Warrior Pups is an important and a fun read filled with great dogs and interesting people. It takes you places you otherwise cannot go--behind the scenes at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where America's Military Working Dogs are bred, nurtured and trained. There is a lot of love for the dogs and the brave handlers who must walk behind them into battle. You feel that love in the pages of this book. Kamen concludes the MWD program is a huge success but we need even more dogs and handlers because of the ever-expanding threat of terrorism. -- John C. Burnam, author of A Soldier's Best Friend If you love dogs, and in particular, American Military Working Dogs and their heroic Handlers, Warrior Pups is the perfect book to read for exclusive, in-depth, behind-the-scenes reporting on how cute puppies become powerful guardians of our troops in the war against terror. Thank you Jeff and Leslie for truly caring about our military and our Military Working Dogs! --Dennis L. Fritz, Chief Master Sergeant, (USAF-Retired)
Author Information
Jeff Kamen is the co-author of Final Warning: Averting Disaster in the New Age of Terrorism (Doubleday). Jeff's NY Daily News Magazine cover story, Facing the Terrorists, provided readers with remarkable access to the NYPD's storied Bomb Squad. His documentaries on law enforcement, race relations, politics and religion were featured on WNET/13. Kamen reported for NPR (one of the five founding staff reporters), NBC News (Chicago, NYC and London), CBS Radio, CBC Radio News and Documentaries, (London, NYC, Chicago) , WPIX-TV, New York City, Independent Network News (NYC, DC, Nicaragua, Germany, Israel). Kamen wrote long-form analytical pieces for the American Journalism Review and Penthouse on issues ranging from the role of the media in the Waco, Texas Branch Davidian Tragedy, to racism in the press.
