• See a short video about the hospital!
• Behavioral specialist evaluates MWDs
• Working Dogs get heavy use in war zones
• Military Disabled Troops, Vets Misled on Service Dogs
• Dogs Bring Home War's Stress, Too
• To Conserve the "Biting" Strength
  

MISSION AND VISION

Mission

Provide primary and specialty level care as well as worldwide referral and consultative services for all dogs in DoD MWD programs and other Federal agencies through our Role 4 facility on Lackland Air Force Base and Role 3 facility at the Medina Annex. Oversee and coordinate Executive Agent responsibilities in the areas of MWD welfare, medical care and authorized research in support of Joint and Interagency missions.  Support MWD Handler, Health Care Provider (HCP), Animal Care Specialist (68T) and Veterinary Corps Officer training both as a training site and as the proponent of the MWD Handler Training Package and HCP MWD Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Vision

World-class working dog veterinary care: guided by ethical consideration for the health and welfare of each dog; and, accountable to working dog handlers, their operational units and the Nation.

COL Kelly Mann
Director, DODMWDVS

Defense security industries and the military working dog community have experienced a huge expansion in their missions since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The expansion is documented by increases in both end-strength raw numbers and in the number of emerging programs for assistance, therapy and law enforcement purposes. San Antonio is the home of Army Medicine and home to the 341st Training Squadron, which is also known as the Department of Defense Military Working Dog School. The 341st Training Squadron has more than 200 military (USAF, USA, USN & USMC) and civilian (USAF) personnel dedicated to the care and training of over 900 working dogs on-site, and to producing more than 400 canine (>270 MWD; >120 TSA) and over 600 human (>500 MWD Handlers; >150 Military Kennelmasters; >120 TSA Handlers) graduates per year. Military Working Dogs and Handlers are then assigned to units which can support contingency operations anywhere in the world. The Dogs and Handlers of the DoHS Transportation Security Administration's Explosives Detection Canine Training Program secure transportation nodes throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Although San Antonio is not the only location for military and civilian working dog programs, the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and civilian personnel of the 341stTraining Squadron, located on Lackland Air Force Base, produce a large portion of the working dog handlers and working dogs that protect our military installations, transportation systems and, most importantly, our personnel deployed worldwide. More