Today I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the local military base with students from our eighth grade class. It was a sort of career day, and the students were given the opportunity to tour the base to see what it might be like to work in the military.
When I think about career opportunities in the military, I think about combat missions, logistics, operating vehicles such as airplanes, tanks, humvees and ships, and of course playing in a military band. The careers I was able to explore today were not what I expected to see.
First, we were taken to the area of the base where they train the police dogs. I have had some experience in this area with civilian police. We have Lovey going to a training school where we were training him with a former police K-9 specialist. Today we saw the actual work dogs in action. They put them through their regular routine. Lucky, the first dog showed off his skills on the agility course. Dakota, the second dog showed us how he follows commands carefully when executing a "bite and retrieval" maneuver. It was very interesting and entertaining.
Next, we visited the main fire station on base. This is the largest of the five stations on the joint base. It houses regual firetrucks as well as the much larger trucks used to extinguish fires on airplanes. They demonstrated the air cannon on one of the air fire trucks. It was very impressive. The water was released with great force from the truck. All 3300 gallons of water were expelled in a 15 minute time period!
I thoroughly enjoyed my day at the military base today!
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