IG reports US Bomb Sniffing dogs were mistreated in Jordan

IG Report: US Sent Bomb-Sniffing Dogs to Jordan, Then They Died from Poor Care

Stars and Stripes
By Chad Garland
13 Sep 2019

For more than 20 years, the State Department has provided bomb-sniffing dogs to foreign countries. But the program came under scrutiny in May 2018, nearly a year after a complaint left on an IG hotline alleged a lack of oversight, insufficient health care for the animals and poor working conditions.

A malnourished Jordanian bomb-sniffing dog named Mencey is seen in an April 2018 photo taken when a team of veterinary workers traveled from the U.S. to prevent an outbreak of insect-borne illness among U.S.-trained working dogs the State Department provided to Jordan. (U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL)

The U.S. government continued to provide dozens of bomb-sniffing dogs to the Kingdom of Jordan, even as the animals were dying of serious health problems and others were so poorly treated that they had "lost the will to work," a government evaluation found.

Since 2008, at least 12 U.S.-trained explosive detection canines provided to the kingdom under an antiterrorism program died from medical problems. Others were overworked, unhealthy and forced to live in kennels with "barely existent" sanitation, including some where a deadly virus was rampant, officials said.
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Air Force Staff Sgt. Died in Jordan Loading Bomb

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Airmen mourn 'mom of the flight line' killed in noncombat incident in Jordan

Air Force announces non-combat death of staff sergeant in Jordan
UPI
By Ed Adamczyk
March 24, 2017

March 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense announced the death of Air Force Staff Sgt. Alexandria Mae Gleason Morrow, who died in a non-combat role earlier this week.

Gleason-Morrow, 25, died Wednesday while performing maintenance duties in Jordan in support of combat operations, a Defense Department statement said. The incident is under investigation.

She was a resident of Dansville, N.Y., serving in the Middle East with the 366th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron of Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. Her mother told WHEC-TV, Rochester, that she died while loading a bomb onto an airplane.
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Fort Campbell Soldier From Texas Dies In Jordan

Fort Campbell Soldier From Texas Dies In Jordan
News Channel 5
Jan 9, 2017

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The Department of Defense has announced the death of Special Forces soldier who was serving in Jordan.

According to a statement from the DOD, Spc. Isiah L. Booker of Cibolo, Texas, died Jan. 7 in a noncombat-related incident. Booker was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, a sprawling Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
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Fort Carson Soldier Died in Jordan

Fort Carson soldier dies from non-combat injury
The Gazette
By Andrea Sinclair
Published: May 19, 2014

The non-combat death of a Fort Carson soldier Saturday in Jordan remains under investigation, Fort Carson officials said Monday.

The Department of Defense announced Monday that Spc. Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, Calif., died in Jordan of a non-combat related injury.

Perkins was seriously injured following an incident at a Jordanian military base and was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound at King Hussein Hospital in Amman, Fort Carson officials said.
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