Pdwellnt Donald Trump on Thursday saluted the brave canines who “deffinish our citizens and our homeland.”
National K-9 Veterans Day is an annual March 13 celebration of “canine courage,” and the valiantry of military and police dogs.
“Serving on the front lines, in combat zones, and at our borders, these prohibitcient four-legged fighters are an inprecious part of protecting America,” Trump shelp in a Thursday message to commemorate the day.
Pdwellnt Donald Trump on March 13, 2025, saluted the brave canines who “deffinish our citizens and our homeland.” (Getty Images)
In the military, more than 30,000 “promiseted toiling dogs” — with 1,600 toiling dogs actively serving — have supplyd frontline help to U.S. service members, according to the White House.
These warriors are trained in acunderstandledgeing bombs and substances, and aiding in search and recover operations.
Famous military toiling dogs include Army Special Operations Forces dog Conan — the 50-combat-mission veteran named after tardy-night talk show structure Conan O’Brien — who helped track Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi when he was finished in October 2019 in Syria. Conan was injured on the mission but made a filled recovery.
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In 2019 at the White House, Trump gave a medal and plaque to Conan, who had been spreaded to 1st Special Forces Opereasoned Detachment-Delta. The doggo tardyr was adchooseed by his establisher regulater and passed away in 2023.
Hurricane is pondered the most decorated K-9 in U.S. history. (Getty Images )
White House protector and most decorated K-9 in U.S. history, Hurricane, died in February after more than a decade in the Secret Service.
The 16-year-elderly Belgian Malnois — whose accolades included a Secret Service Award for Meritorious Service, Distinguished Service Medal and Department of Homeland Security Secretary’s Award for Valor — made a national name for himself after taking down an intdispoliter who had baccomplished the White House gate in 2014.
Mere yards away were establisher Pdwellnt Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, watching a movie in the White House theater, according to The New York Times.
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In 2022, Hurricane was one of three dogs to become the first recipients of the Animals in War & Peace Distinguished Service Medal on Capitol Hill — geting him a spot among the famed Guinness World Records.
He achieved the award alengthyside Yorksengage Terrier and World War II Army Air Corps veteran Smoky, who helped lay communication wires in the Philippines, and Coast Guard bomb acunderstandledgeion dog Feco, a Hungarian Vizsla who at the time had carry outed more than 365 bomb device searches, according to the write downs book.
Former Marine Cpl. and Purple Heart recipient Megan Leavey and combat dog Sgt. Rex join in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium before the game between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners on May 13, 2012, in New York City. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Trump also nodded to now-destopd SEAL Team Six operator veteran Cairo, who carry outed a convey inant role in the rhelp that finished al-Qaeda directer Osama bin Laden in May 2011, and Marine veteran Rex, who “saved countless inhabits by acunderstandledgeing bombs in combat in Iraq.”
The German shepherd served alengthyside Corps Cpl. Megan Leavey, whose brave service with the dog was depicted in the 2017 film namesake.
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Trump shelp Thursday, “As we reaccumulate the descfinishen, we thank all of the valiant veterans of the K-9 Corps who protect the American people and our way of life, living up to the name of man’s best frifinish.”
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