USS BLUE RIDGE, At Sea (NNS) -- Master-at-arms dog handlers from Yokosuka Naval Base ceremoniously paid their last respects to three of their working dog partners during a burial at sea service Dec. 2 aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19).
Burials at sea are an age-old tradition in the Navy, but this ceremony was the first of its kind on Blue Ridge involving three military working dogs, Art, Max and Connor.
MWD Art was deployed to in support of "Iraqi Freedom" from January through August 2005.
USS BLUE RIDGE, At Sea (NNS) -- Master-at-arms dog handlers from Yokosuka Naval Base ceremoniously paid their last respects to three of their working dog partners during a burial at sea service Dec. 2 aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19).
Burials at sea are an age-old tradition in the Navy, but this ceremony was the first of its kind on Blue Ridge involving three military working dogs, Art, Max and Connor.
MWD Art was deployed to in support of "Iraqi Freedom" from January through August 2005.
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