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Will Chesney - No Ordinary Dog

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Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Ladens compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairos story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a SEAL Team Operator whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairos. Starting in 2008, when Will was introduced to the SEAL canine program, he and Cairo worked side by side, depending on each other for survival on hundreds of critical operations in the war on terrorism. But their bond transcended their service. Then, in 2011, the call came: Pick up your dog and get back to Virginia. Now. What followed were several weeks of training for a secret mission. It soon became clear that this was no ordinary operation. Cairo was among the first members of the U.S. military on the ground in Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear, which resulted in the successful elimination of bin Laden. As Cairo settled into a role as a reliable spare dog, Will went back to his job as a DEVGRU operator, until a grenade blast in 2013 left him with a brain injury and PTSD. Unable to participate in further missions, he suffered from crippling migraines, chronic pain, memory issues, and depression. Modern medicine provided only modest relief. Instead, it was up to Cairo to save Wills life once moreand then up to Will to be there when Cairo needed him the most.

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FOR CAIRO

I want to thank everyone who came together to make this book possible. It has been a pleasure working with my editor, Marc Resnick, assistant editor, Hannah OGrady, and the entire team at St. Martins Press who worked so hard to put this project together. Its been a long road!

My co-writer, Joe Layden, has made the difficult process of telling Cairos story much easier and even enjoyable at times. As much as I miss Cairo, it has been rewarding to have an opportunity to share memories of our time together.

Special thanks to producers Mark Semos and Jay Pollak from The Reserve Label and Cairo Holdings, and a big thank-you to Producer Alan Rautbort. And thanks also to our literary agent, Frank Weimann.

I would like to thank the U.S. Navy and the SEAL teams for allowing me to serve my country and giving me the opportunity to participate in countless great events. I want to thank my teammates for always being there and their families for allowing them to be. I would like to acknowledge everyone who served or who is currently serving in any capacity, to keep this country safe. Most notably, I want to recognize my fallen brothers in the military who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

I would also like to thank everyone who has helped me get through the difficult times transitioning out of the Navy, both on a personal and medical side. Natalie Kelley was there for me (and Cairo) when I needed a lot of support, and I will always be grateful. There were many doctors and support personnel at various treatment centers I attended: your kindness and expertise meant the world to me and helped me on the path to recovery. Among this group I would like to specifically recognize Kara Williams and the staff of the Brain Treatment Foundation for all their hard work on behalf of veterans. There are many other friends and teammates who helped on a personal level, too many to name individually here, and I dont want to leave anyone out. You know who you are!

I would like to thank my mother and father for providing me with a loving home and family and for supporting my decision to enter the Navy and chase my dream of becoming a SEAL. Thanks for always being there for me.

Finally, I would like to thank God for watching over me through times good and bad.

This may not be quite the story you are expecting. I might as well make that clear from the outset.

I served thirteen years in the U.S. Navy, including eleven as a SEAL, participating in countless operations and missions as part of the post-9/11 war on terrorism. As a member of SEAL team (redacted) I was on the ground in Pakistan in the spring of 2011, when the highest of high-value targets, Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed. So its fair to say that I have seen some shit. But that is only part of the story here, and not the most important part.

You see, while I have had the privilege of serving alongside some of the bravest and best men you could ever hope to meet, I also had the distinct honor of working and living with an unusual and unsung hero whose role in modern warfarespecifically counterterrorismis hard to comprehend. Unless, of course, you served with him or one of his fellow four-legged warriors.

I grew up with dogs, had always been a dog lover, but I had no idea of the extent to which canines had been incorporated into the military until I became a SEAL and began to hear the stories. I remember walking into a training room once, early in my tenure, and hearing the following directive:

Raise your hand if your life has ever been saved by a dog.

Without hesitation, roughly 90 percent of the men in the room lifted their arms. They did not laugh. They did not smile. This was serious, earnest business.

A dog can save your life? It sure as hell can. In my case, many times over. Both on and off the battlefield.

This is my story, but it is also the story of one of those military working dogs, or MWDs (more accurately, he was part of a particularly advanced subset of MWDs known as combat assault dogs, or CADs; and he was the most famous of them all, thanks to his participation in the raid on bin Ladens compound), a canine SEAL named Cairo, a seventy-pound Belgian Malinois who jumped out of planes, fast-roped out of helicopters, traversed streams and rivers, sniffed out roadside IEDs, and disarmedliterally, in some casesinsurgents. In short, he did everything expected of his human counterparts, and he did it with unblinking loyalty and unwavering courage. I would have taken a bullet for him, and he did in fact take one for me. So this is his book as much as it is mine. Maybe more.

I first met Cairo in the summer of 2008. Id been in the navy for six years by that time, almost all of it as a SEAL, and had been through multiple deployments, most recently to Iraq. I was stationed in Virginia, satisfied with my work, and not really looking for any big changes. But when I was introduced to the canine program, it immediately caught my interest. I had rottweilers and pit bulls as a kid, but had never bothered to do any training with them. They were pets and companions, not working dogs. Fortunately, in those early days of MWDs being incorporated into Special Operations, experience was not a hard-core prerequisite for becoming a dog handler; all you had to do was express an interest in the job, and suddenly there you were, attached 24-7 to a magnificent Malinois (German shepherds, Dutch shepherds, and Labrador retrievers have also been used as MWDs, but the Malinoisbasically a smaller, leaner, more agile version of the shepherdis the ideal combat assault dog).

Not everyone is a dog personI think sometimes you are either born with that trait or you are notand not every SEAL wants to babysit an animal both at home and on deployment. My fellow SEALs were all happy to have Cairo out in front of us when we approached a quiet compound in the middle of the night, unsure of whether the perimeter was lined with explosives or how many people were lying in wait. And when not on the job, he was the sort of dogfriendly, playfulthat encouraged human interaction; simply put, just about everyone on the team loved him.

But to take on the burden of being a dogs handler? That was left to someone who really wanted the job. Someone who understood and embraced the designation.

That was me. Cairo was my dog. And I was his dad. I dont use that term euphemistically. The relationship between a handler and a canine SEAL is profound and intimate. It goes well beyond friendship and the usual ties that bind man to dog. The training is experiential and all-encompassing, a round-the-clock immersion designed to foster not just expertise but an attachment of uncommon depth and complexity.

Anyone who has ever shared his life with a dog understands the symbiotic nature of the relationshiphow a dog relies on his master for sustenance and shelter, and responds with love and loyalty so unconditional that it can take your breath away. Well, take that relationship and multiply it tenfold, and then factor in the almost incomprehensible bond that is forged when a dog puts his life on the line for you and your brothers, every single day, and you get an idea of what it was like for Cairo and meand indeed for almost anyone who is fortunate enough to be the handler of a canine SEAL.

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