 Staff Sergeant Christopher Allen with the 36th Security Forces Squadron, Anderson Air Force Base Guam. This is my first time in the Philippines. It's very great. People are very welcoming, very nice, very good food. I'm loving it here. What we did today was kind of give a little bit of a demo of what our dog's capabilities are, how we kind of can mix with other canine units as far as training, how much we have related to each other with that. We worked with the Filipino Air Force. Working alongside with the PAF has been an outstanding experience. They've been teaching us a lot of things, kind of exchanging information, but it's been going very well. I have not worked with the Philippines services before. We have worked with different countries at Anderson Air Force Base, and this is the first time actually intertwining with PAF. What have I learned from them? I've learned how they use dogs with different capabilities. I've never seen dogs be able to find people under rubble and stuff, so when they demoed us that, it kind of showed us how they did that. It was amazing. Their training standards are pretty much just as the same as ours. We just work in a different way, and the way that they work is amazing. How do I see our team and their team kind of working together? Honestly, it's one big team. Just intertwining our dogs together, trying to get that same basis of information and have our dogs at the same level is kind of the goal. But ultimately, I think we would have no problem being able to work with them side by side. I think they exchange benefits to handlers in many ways. Just by finding that middle ground of how we can keep that training the same, but a little bit different in our own ways, as well as they might have some capabilities that we don't have, as far as the same as we have capabilities that they might not have. I think if we were to intertwine, we both have strong suits on sides that we could both learn. Yes, we actually hung out last Saturday. We played some basketball. Those guys can really hoop. They really can. We pretty much played for a couple hours, and they did not stop. That heat was not affecting them, but it was affecting us. It's amazing. Spending time with them outside of work, it was amazing just because we could kind of open up a little bit, break bread a little bit, play a game that we both love, and just kind of talk to each other offline and just see what other similarities we have besides work. Yeah, I'm very thankful to be here. I want to thank PAF for allowing us to be here and training with them and intertwining and just exchanging information. It's been a blast. I think the biggest thing that I've learned here so far is you really have to be open with everybody around you when it comes to training. There's obviously kind of a language barrier, but just because there's a language barrier doesn't mean that we can exchange information and kind of see eye-to-eye on stuff. They've taught us more than I could possibly have learned in this short amount of time. It's been amazing. As far as how this is going to impact the dogs, you're going to have more things in your pocket that you can teach them, different techniques that may benefit them or benefit dogs at your other kennels. What have we done since we've been here? Within this week, we got a lot accomplished. We've kind of imprinted their dogs on an odor that they have not really dealt with before, and it's really warm to see the dogs being able to actually work and use our odors as well. We've introed some patrol training, which is just that bite work and just seeing how we can build their dogs up or how they can build their dogs up from the ground up and just kind of see how we did it. We also did some odor placement. So we did some odor placement, basically just strengthening the dog's capabilities to find odor, which was a huge thing. They taught us a lot about that because they search in a different way, but kind of the same. We did some gunfire training. The other day, we had some smoke grenades. We had some GBSs, which is just kind of like a mock of a big flashbang or just kind of a big boom, and I believe that was their dog's first time being exposed to it, so seeing that they had no issues with it or they did have a little bit of issues and they just kind of worked through it just like we would. I think one of the most benefitting things that we have done was the veterinarian training. So we have a mock diesel dog is what we call it, but it basically bleeds, it barks, it gives off pulses, breast per minute, everything. So seeing the handlers and the trainers and their vet as well being able to do hands-on incisions, tracheotomies, that was some very great stuff and Lieutenant Colonel's really taught that very good.