and handler teams continue to train. >> dog command. >> and defend our freedom at home. >> and overseas. nearly 3,000 dogs currently work for the military. >> we train the military working dogs to detect explosives and narcotics. building searching scouting. looking for someone in an open field. >> we are doing explosive training. the dogs of day 25 in training. >> pretty much a game of hide and seek. the job is to go find it. when they do find it we teach them to sit and give them a toy. >> they think some of the training that they do s actually a game which is nice because they really try hard. >> the dogs may look cute and playful but they are fierce intelligent creatures. depending on the breed their noses can detect up to 100 times better than their human partners. >> we use primarily german shepherd dogs as our working dogs because those are the dogs