#3: Serve your country – Adopt a military dog!

As I was watching ABC News the other night, they did a feature on something I found REALLY inspiring and awesome! Everyone’s heard of the dogs the military trains to sniff out bombs and get enemies during war, but that’s about all you’ve heard about them. Well, now you can do your part to ‘serve’ your country in some way by taking a retiring military member into your home… a canine one!

German Shepard MWD from Military Working Dog Adoptions

The number one question is… well, aren’t they dangerous? They’re trained to be, right? Nope. When a dog is selected for retirement, the handlers first see if anyone close to the dog (another servicemember) wants to adopt it, then they offer the dog to K-9 police units around the country, and then the dog goes through a compatibility test to see if they can be placed in civilian homes. The ones you can adopt are listed on the Lackland Air Force Page, and they have been found to be great companions!

How do you adopt a WMD? Check out MilitaryWorkingDogAdoptions.com for a great step by step review of the process. Check out the aforementioned Lackland AFB home page to look at some of the pups available now!

First post!

Hey everyone! I’m so excited that we’re about to start this wonderful list of 144 things that you should do…. (fill in the blank, such as: before you die, when you have enough money, before you have your mid-life crisis, etc.) according to 8 millennials!

Wait, so what is a millennial?

Actually, we’re pretty special. According to Wikipedia, we are “a cohort of individuals born from 1980 to 1999, who grew up in the 1990’s and 2000’s.” The New York Times loves us, giving us a plug from a prominent op-ed contributer, and there is even an About.com article telling people how to manage us in the workforce! Mostly though, people want to know what we like and what makes us tick.

I thought up the 144 things to do before you die idea simply so we could show the world things that we’re interested in, and perhaps give you a window into our souls, so to speak. Are we really all just yearning to be Paris Hilton’s new BFF, or do we actually care about world issues? Will our list be full of dive bars and fast cars, or will it include thoughtful and interesting things the average person can do? To address you as Stephen Colbert does (one of Gen Y’s messiahs, didn’t ya know?) … stay tuned, nation.