If the working dogs that train with U.S. Navy SEALs could earn the group’s fabled Trident pin, certainly Cairo would have one. A veteran of many missions and nearly killed in one, the Belgian Malinois was there for the raid on Osama bin Laden’s home with his handler, Will Chesney.

But they don’t get them, so, when Chesney retired and decided to write about Cairo in No Ordinary Dog, he included a Trident on the cover.

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