It was not all work as George, his college roommate, picked Greg up a couple of times to hang out with the family... for which both of us were grateful.
Now Greg is at FT Jackson (outside of Columbia, SC) trying to learn "the difference between a regular Sergeant and all the other special kinds of Sergeants the Army has.". I'm sure they're happy to have him amongst their ranks. Since he has not provided any updates to share, he has finally given the OK to share those below of training he received before deploying...
Unable to keep the event from me, he was at least trying to avoid having his Grandmother find out... such go the plans of mice and men... It seems (over a few beers), my beloved agreed to assist in the training of military working dogs attached to base security here at the Groton Sub Base. I thought he was joking until he came home with these pictures about a month ago. It seems Greg was dressed in the productive gear you see below and basically told to run... and then "Vincent" was sent after him. No stranger to dogs, Greg was completely blown away at Vincent's ability and was quite excited about the experience (something that was supposed to make me feel better). Apparently a good decoy makes or breaks a working dog - in other words, I guess there are people out there that the dogs don't care to chase in a training environment (it's as if they know it's not for real).
As you can see from the pictures below, Greg was able to tick Vincent off enough that "good training was held." So much so that Vincent's handler had a hard time pulling him off of Greg. I am so proud.
