This program was sponsored by Fifth Third Bank with support from State of Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka. Dowling currently lives in Los Angeles, where he serves on the advisory boards of two wounded-warrior nonprofit organizations. Sgt Mike Walker will be retiring from the Canadian Forces on May 9th 2008, after 21 plus years of loyal and dedicated service. He deployed to Iraq in March 2004 and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his and Rex's Iraq operations. Also known as: Mr Mike W Sargent, Mr Mike Sargent, Mike Sargent. Mike Dowling enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 2001 and graduated top in his class at MP school before entering the military working dog handler's course. Brown Training and Education Center / Published June 22, 2016. The Army profession is a unique vocation of experts who are entrusted to defend the Constitution and the rights and interests of the American people.

Through first-hand accounts of dangerous patrols in Iraq, Dowling artfully describes the role working dogs play in today's military. Roy, 25, of North Fort Myers, Florida, assigned to the 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Advisor Group, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command at Camp Lejeune, was killed in action on July 8, 2009, in Nimroz Province, Afghanistan, while supporting combat operations. Sergeant Rex is the story of a human-canine relationship forged in combat.

Mike Dowling: Sergeant Rex Sergeant Mike Dowling and his military working dog Rex were one of the first Marine Corps military K9 teams sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam.ĭeployed to Iraq in 2004, there was nothing that could have fully prepared either for what they would face in the infamous Triangle of Death.

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