 The Area Support Group Kuwait Directorate of Emergency Services canine got together with the 745th EOD from Grayling, Michigan to do some roadway and building bomb identification training in Camp Bearing Kuwait. At the end of the day it's a dog team so you both work together. You're paying attention to your dog but you're also looking around to make sure your dog doesn't step on anything or hurt themselves and you're watching to see if they catch an odor and everything and respond. If the dog is trained well it's going to respond on the items that it's supposed to respond on. What the handler needs to be doing is searching the surroundings for individuals, other devices, other areas of interest. When the canine finds one of the planted bombs they are awarded with a toy in a brief moment of playtime with their handlers. It helps reassure them that okay if I find this it unlocks what I really want which is the reward. So we play with them because it encourages that behavior to search and want that reward more. You've done what I wanted you to do and this is your reward for it. We play with them because the reward is not just the toy itself. The reward is the interaction with the handler. The dog is like kind of your best friend and you create this really good bond and then once you bond more you start to trust that dog more. It's a crazy bond because if that dog saves your life you're like oh shoot I'm alive because of your dog.