The Washington Free Beacon's Stephen Gutowski appeared on NRA TV's Cam & Co on Tuesday and discussed his recent story on the Army's Tactical Explosive Detection Dog program.
After combat operations, dogs in the TEDD program were supposed to go home to their handlers if they wanted them. However, many dogs ended up with a private company that wanted to sell them to foreign countries, and some eventually went to a shelter in Virginia. Several dogs eventually did find their way to their handlers after the veterans had searched for several years.
Gutowski recalled the sad case of Jake Carlberg, one of the handlers.
"One of the handlers, his name is Jake Carlberg, he died before he was ever able to reunite with his dog," Gutowski said. "He spent months and months searching for his dog, dealt with all kinds of Army bureaucracy, was lied to on a number of occasions by Soliden Technologies and the people associated with them, and then he passed away in a car accident before he was ever able to see his dog again."
Gutowski and host Cam Edwards also mentioned the kennel that saved many of the dogs from being killed, Mount Hope Kennel, and the GoFundMe page set up for the kennel's owners.