Military Working Dog Registry Established to Improve Care

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U.S. Army Maj. Tiffany Kimbrell, assigned to the 949th Medical Detachment, gives a brief during a veterinary class at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on August 11, 2020. A Military Working Dog Trauma Registry was launched by the DoD to track MWD casualty care epidemiology, treatment, diagnostics, and outcomes to improve care (photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Calabro).
U.S. Army Maj. Tiffany Kimbrell, assigned to the 949th Medical Detachment, gives a brief during a veterinary class at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on August 11, 2020. A Military Working Dog Trauma Registry was launched by the DoD to track MWD casualty care epidemiology, treatment, diagnostics, and outcomes to improve care (photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Calabro).

January 10, 2023 | Originally published by Defense Health Agency on January 6, 2023

The U.S. Department of Defense established a registry for military working dogs, referenced in the military as MWDs, because it recognized a need for a database to keep track of morbidity and mortality during deployment.

In January 2022, the Military Working Dog Trauma RegistryOpens JTS.health.mil was launched by the Department of Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma Joint Trauma SystemOpens JTS.Health.mil and “captures military working dog casualty care epidemiology, treatment, diagnostics, and outcomes from point of injury through recovery,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Sarah Cooper, chief of animal medicine with the Defense Health Agency Veterinary Service Division.

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