{"id":17652,"date":"2010-02-24T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17652"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:53:46","slug":"brits-honor-hero-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17652","title":{"rendered":"Brits honor hero dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0_61_022410_treo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17651 aligncenter\" title=\"0_61_022410_treo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0_61_022410_treo.jpg\" alt=\"0_61_022410_treo\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0_61_022410_treo.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0_61_022410_treo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TSO sends this article about Treo, a working dog in the British Army who was awarded his country&#8217;s highest honor;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In August, 2008, while working as a forward detection dog in Sangin, Treo found a &#8220;daisy chain&#8221; improvised explosive device (IED) &#8211; made of two or more explosives wired together &#8211; that had been carefully modified and concealed by the Taliban at the side of a path.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, his actions saved another platoon from guaranteed casualties, again by finding a daisy chain IED.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is being rewarded with the Dickin Medal &#8211; the animal equivalent of a Victoria Cross &#8211; the highest accolade for a military animal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This fellow looks a little too young, but apparently he&#8217;s joined the ranks of the retired;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Treo retired and is now enjoying life with handler Sergeant Dave Heyhoe back at 104 Military Working Dogs Support Unit, in North Luffenham, Rutland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We, at This Ain&#8217;t Hell, love dogs and we&#8217;re glad that this little cutie survived the war and gets to enjoy his retirement. I wonder if there&#8217;s anything else we should know about that goes along with being awarded a medal named &#8220;Dickin&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends this article about Treo, a working dog in the British Army who was awarded &hellip; <a title=\"Brits honor hero dog\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17652\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brits honor hero dog<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}