 Public Health Activity Japan team gathered at a field on Naval Air Facility Atsugi along with several soldiers from the 9 of 1st military police detachment, US Navy sailors and some full-legged training partners. These are military working dogs and the soldiers and sailors are working dog hundlers, animal care specialists and veterinarians. This has never really been done before or thought of, so there's a lot of thought in consideration with the dog and how to decon it safely and efficiently. The groups are there to conduct first-ever joint training for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear or sea burn decontamination. The Army's 340th chemical company organized a training in order to increase unit readiness. This is my first time ever working with a chemical company, so it's amazing to get to actually have the subject matter experts come out and be able to teach us, show us points that maybe we've been doing wrong throughout the years where we just teach ourselves. It is a bit challenging working with a dog, but we tried it out, we had a plan, nothing took too long, there was no weight or anything, everything went very well. The hundlers dressed in protective gear and went through the decontamination lanes with the dogs. It's really hot and you also have no dexterity with your fingers, so it's hard to like do fine motor tasks, like being able to undo this clip for his muzzle, super easy right now, but with those gloves on it was really hard. I'm glad they invited us out, it's definitely been a really interesting day, really fun. Staff Sergeant Michael Coffey and his militarily working dog, Sergeant First Class Yonder, both assigned to the 901st MP Detachment, took part in the training with their team. The mop suits are very similar to our bite suits, so it's something that he could associate, it's something that he wants to bite, something he wants to play with, was definitely a challenge to make sure that he stayed focused on what I was telling him to do. Later on in this day, the teams also experienced something new at the airfield. This is not the first time that our community has worked with dogs like this, and so this is a good familiarization for them to get them ready for any kind of operational missions that might come up. The U.S. Navy's ACSC-12 Golden Falcons Detachment One Crews assisted the joint training with the medical evacuation operation. For two years old, Yonder, it was not only his first time being part of SEBEN training, but also flying with his handler. Even as a staff sergeant, even being in for seven years, something new to me, now me and my other handlers can take back to the kennels, kind of teach them so it really increases our readiness as a kennel or any deployments that we may have. It was also really great to be able to integrate with these other units, train with them and kind of meet new people, make new contacts. Reporting for U.S. Army Service on Japan, I'm Aya Pati.