SSG Summer + Micah Jones, Mt. Airy, MD
“My retired partner’s name is Staff Sergeant Summer,” says Sergeant Michah Jones, a Patrol/K9 Supervisor with the Amtrak Police Department. “She’s a ten-year-old Labrador.”
In her ten years, Summer has made incredible contributions. She served as a Military Working Dog and war dog in the Marine Corps, then served as a Police Explosive Detection
Dog for seven years. While deployed, Summer searched for and positively identified countless weapons caches and improvised explosive devices, swept and cleared routes for the troops, and was involved in numerous fire fights with insurgents. Summer put her life on the line to protect, defend, and save the lives of countless troops. As a result of exposure to war-zone environments and other traumatic events experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan, Summer was diagnosed with canine PTSD in December 2015. "She copes with this condition daily but hasn’t let it stop her," says Sergeant Jones. Though now retired, Summer continues to give by visiting her fellow veterans at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, in St. Mary’s County, MD, where love and pats cheers other former military members.