Guest says assault dog teams retrain “bark and hold” to avoid shootings

What was said

"So, I guess when we received the dogs, they were trained to go into a bark and hold situation for canine officers. Um for us that just that's just going to get the dog shot, right? So, we train try to untrain that out of them and directly engage."

An unidentified guest says military working dogs may arrive trained for police-style “bark and hold”, which he argues can get a dog shot in assault operations. He says teams try to retrain dogs towards direct engagement while handlers move in to subdue, and recounts a second-hand story in which a dog called Falco was shot during an engagement.