We love dogs , but we love war dogs even more because apart from being truehearted and cute , they can be absolutely badass . We are so possessed with these awesome eye tooth that we made a appeal of the 30 in force pic we could observe all over the WWW . Enjoy .
BADASS: War dogs are not new. They used them in armiesthousands of years ago. These are US Army paratrooper rescue dogs being trained in 1944.
U.S. Office of War Information photo
CUTE: Some start like this, as cute puppies in the Military Working Dog Breeding Program on Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
DoD photo by Linda Hosek
BADASS: This is Rambo, an explosive detector dog assigned to the U.S. Air Force 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron chomping on a soldier for training.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt . Cecilio Ricardo
BADASS: Dog and US Army Special Forces soldier jump to the sea off the back of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech . Sgt . Manuel J. Martinez
CUTE: “I’m so happy!”—these dogs are trained with positive reinforcement conditioning techniques. They truly love it.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt . Robert Storm
CUTE: Two buddies resting. Explosive hunter dog Troy and U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Derrick Magee on a patrol break in Afghanistan.
BADASS: First military dog-human tandem airborne jump from 12,500 feet.
U.S. Army pic by Sgt . Vince Vander Maarel
BADASS: Parachute opens!
CUTE: You take your dog around the block. Senior Airman Stephen Hanks takes Geri around Sather Air Base’s perimeter, where he pees on tanks’ threads.
CUTE: Staff Sgt. Erick Martinez carries Argo III over his shoulder. It’s an exercise to build trust and loyalty between them.
U.S. Air Force photo / Airman 1st Class Allen Stokes
CUTE: Apparently, being carried makes dogs very happy. This is Reyana on Senior Airman Beaun Clegg’s back.
U.S. Air Force exposure / Senior Airman Gina Chiaverotti - Paige
CUTE: Not all war dogs are German shepherds. Here’s eight-year-old explosives sniffer Springer after a helo ride.
simulacrum by John Moore / Getty Images
BADASS: Dogs wear goggles too to protect their eyes. They actually call them doggles. Seriously, that’s the actual name. The dog’s name is Rico.
U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Elizabeth Rissmiller
BADASS: More doggles action, because there’s never enough doggles action. Ajax doesn’t seem to mind them.
U.S. Army pic / Pfc . William Servinski II
CUTE: This is Panzer and US Army veteran Brad Schwarz, who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. Panzer is not a war dog, but a service dog who helps war veterans.
figure by Scott Olson / Getty Images
BADASS: War dogs like to jump through car windows, just because they can.
U.S. Air Force exposure by Senior Airman Stacia M. Willis
BADASS: Rangers and a multi-purpose war dog being awesome in the dark.
U.S. Army photo
CUTE: Mack and Senior Airman Gregory Darby. Just bonding.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Stan Parker
CUTE: War dogs love tennis balls. This is Coba, a 3-year-old chocolate lab and tactical explosives detector dog.
U.S. Army pic by Sgt . Christopher M. Gaylord
BADASS: Meki hoisted up to a medical evacuation helicopter in Alaska. War dogs are treated just like their human buddies.
U.S. Army exposure by Staff Sgt . Matthew T MacRoberts
BADASS: War dogs even give blood to save their fellow canines. Here’s Carly M745, a security forces K-9 being sedated to have blood drawn on July 3.
US Army photograph by Tech . Sgt . Caycee Cook
SAD: War dogs die too. Rony was a patrol dog for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden before dying on 7 April 2025.
U.S. Air Force photograph by Tech . Sgt . Vanessa Valentine
CUTE: Liaka, a Dutch shepherd, quietly receiving instructions from her handler on a mission in Hadar, Baghdad.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom
CUTE: Search and rescue dog Ronnie high-fiving U.S. Air Force Capt. Greg Auerbach, an KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft instructor pilot with the 54th Air Refueling Squadron.
DoD picture by Senior Airman Leandra D. Stepp , U.S. Air Force
CUTE: Two airedale terriers, one wearing a special gas mask and the other carrying rations for a wounded soldier in World War II
Fox Photos / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
BADASS: When they are done with their mission, war dogs need to extracted too. Here are some Navy SEALs demonstrating a Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction with one of their dogs.
U.S. Navy picture by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anthony Harding
picture curation by Attila Nagy
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