 The Civil Affairs Functional Specialty Team, along with Camp Lemonnier's Kennel Master, have been here for the past week in a subject matter expert engagement with the Kenyan Defense Force First K-9 Regiment. This has been a very productive week exchanging information as well as strengthening our relationship with the two militaries. Our focus is on the military working dog and the aspects of first aid, combat casualty care, and handler proficiencies. The military working dog is an asset to both militaries as well as a force provider. This week in Kenya, we've been working with the first K-9 Regiment out here, the Kenyan Defense Forces, all three services of the branches, Army, Air Force, and their Navy. So we've got to do a lot of patrol training, which is like controlled aggression, basically breaking it down to working the dogs to where they're able to subdue a suspect by biting them and apprehending them and holding them in place until the military police officer or the dog handler can get up and safely apprehend the suspect. We're also doing some IED recognition while they're searching for explosives, showing the handler that if they pay attention to their surroundings and they do a pre-search assessment before they start conducting their search, how to locate that there might be an IED in the area, so instead of them sending their dog down into a dangerous area, they're able to recognize that there might be a danger up ahead and they can mark it and go ahead and return to safety. Having the mine detection dogs and the explosive search dogs that we use on their vehicles, we've been a good resource to our commanders, especially along the borders and the entry points into the country because it's been a deterrence. The first K9 Regiment has a lot of knowledge to share. They've been explaining a lot of the different tactics they've used to fight the extremists in the area, different IEDs they've been finding in the area as well, and they've also showed me different ways they've been utilizing their dogs to be a psychological deterrent. Military working dog handlers, it doesn't matter what branch of service you serve for or what country you even come from at the end of the day with military working dog handlers, we have the same passion and desire to work with dogs and to utilize them to save lives.