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Buy PhotoTech. Sgt. Seth Shannon, the 374th Security Forces Squadron’s kennel master, holds military working dog Allie at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 25, 2021. (Theron Godbold/Stars and Stripes)
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan A pair of black Labrador retrievers have gone from green to blue, moving from the III Marine Expeditionary Force to new jobs with the Air Force’s 374th Security Forces Squadron in Tokyo.
Splash and Allie 4- and 5-year-old females flew from Camp Hanson on Okinawa to the home of U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force in the Japanese capital this spring, said Tech. Sgt. Seth Shannon, the security forces squadron’s kennel master.
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 29, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan A young airman who worked around coronavirus restrictions to fly 11 military working dogs to Japan last year was honored Thursday by a two-legged, three-star general at the home of U.S. Forces Japan. The dogs, trained to sniff out bombs and contraband or chase down and tackle intruders on U.S. bases, routinely flew to Japan on commercial aircraft before the pandemic. That option ended last spring due to air travel restrictions threatening the canine supply at U.S. bases all over Japan.