Courtesy Military Working Dog Teams National Monument
A dog park at a Fort Carson’s just outside of Colorado Springs is being named in honor of an Oregon soldier and his military working dog who were killed during their tour in Iraq. Corporal Kory Wiens (WEENS) and the Labrador retriever named Cooper will be remembered at a ceremony Friday at Fort Carson just outside Colorado Springs. The ceremony will include a military working dog demonstration by the 759th Military Police Battalion.
Wiens and Cooper were killed by an improvised bomb while on patrol in Iraq in 2007.
Bless them both for their service.