Members of the installation’s Directorate of Emergency Services, K9 Explosives Detection team were successfully recertified recently after Dave Barnes, the Installation Management Command K9 program manager, conducted a detailed validation process. “There were five days of intensive evaluation which included obedience, obstacle course, patrol work, building search and explosive detection among other tasks,” said Angel Rivera a Department of the Army civilian police on post. Rivera was evaluated and certified along with his military working dog Eendora, a nine-year-old Belga Malinois. Meanwhile Nelson Del Valle and Zada, a two-year-old German Shepherd also received the certification.