Sgt. 1st Class Earl C. Couture, an engineer with Company

Sgt. 1st Class Earl C. Couture, an engineer with Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd “Dagger” Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, United States Division – Center, and a Jay, Maine, native, inspects Joey, a black Labrador retriever and bomb-sniffing dog with the 11th Iraqi Army Division, prior to training Aug. 17 at Joint Security Station Old MoD, Iraq. Joey and three other working dogs were inherited by the 11th IA Div. from a contracting firm and are now being re-trained by Couture to work with 11th IA Div. handlers.