Kandahar, Afghanistan (November 23rd, 2010) Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC recently renewed its commitment and contract to provide contracted working dogs to NATO’s International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan.
VCSi’s CEO Buck Dikes traveled to Kandahar and met with NATO contracting officials on Tuesday to discuss the continued canine services and sign the one year option period, which extends the contracted services for an additional year. VCSi has been providing the contracted canine services to NATO troops in Afghanistan since March of 2009.
“We are very pleased and honored to be providing these special services to our international troops in Afghanistan.” “The renewed contract is an indication that we are carrying out the mission and doing it well,” said Dikes from an undisclosed location in Kandahar. When asked about the services being provided, Dikes stated: “I will not comment on the number of dog teams provided or the applications in which we deploy our teams, it’s a matter of force protection.”
The current contract will extend the services until December 31, 2011, at which time NATO can again renew the contract with VCSi should there still be the need to have these specially trained dogs protecting coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC has been supporting the freedom efforts in Afghanistan since 2007 and is currently one of the largest providers of contracted working dogs for private security and military forces in the Afghanistan.
