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Canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training

U.S. military personnel learn how to bandage an appendage wound during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. Students practiced proper placement and wrapping techniques on a demonstration dog simulating a real canine. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa

U.S. military personnel learn how to identify the triangle of avoidance to properly place an endotracheal tube during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. Students were taught how to use the triangle as a directory of tube placement. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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Canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training

U.S. military personnel learn how to insert an endotracheal tube during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. Students in the class learned how to properly place a 10 mm tube into a canine’s mouth to allow airflow if needed in combat situations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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Canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training

U.S. military personnel learned about intraosseous catheters and tools used during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. The tool shown allows for the bone to be used to administer liquids and medications to animals with low blood pressure and inability to access the vein. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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Canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training

U.S. military personnel learn how to place an endotracheal tube during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. Students learned how to fill the tube with air to ensure no air escapes out of the canine’s lungs when the tube is in place. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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Canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training

U.S. military personnel learn how to insert an intravenous catheter during a canine tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025. Students learned how to angle a needle and roll a vein to properly place the needle. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micheala Maldonado)

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CJTF-HOA veterinarian and medical staff trained military personnel on several medical life-saving procedures during a military working dog canine (K9) tactical combat casualty care class at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti, Jan. 29, 2025.

In the event a K9 is injured, any personnel with the training can perform life-saving procedures to aid a K9.

The life-saving tactics were similar procedures performed on human beings such as bleeding control, airway management, IV placement.

However, the training focused on nuances with how to identify and detect problems in the event the K9 is injured. Tactics like finding a pulse, inserting an IV, and tourniquet placement were among the many procedural items that were demonstrated and practiced. 

One important lesson was teaching the personnel to not use a tourniquet due to K9 limbs being thinner and the tourniquet being unstable.

The training used a plush, stuffed 'demo dog' to prevent injuries on real K9s however they performed real pulse checks on a live K9.

The personnel walked away with valuable skills that can be used where a K9 requires immediate medical care due to heat or combat related injuries.