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Future Guide Dogs Train At BWI, Learn How To Navigate Airport Security: Photos
These good boys and girls explored BWI Airport. With tails wagging, the future guide dogs learned how to navigate airport security.
![Fourteen future guide dogs from the Baltimore Puppy Raising Region of Guiding Eyes for the Blind visited Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Linthicum on Oct. 17 to go through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/24287450/20221024/011335/styles/patch_image/public/aa25d5d3-d029-427f-b7c1-a6135234652f___24131329562.jpg)
LINTHICUM, MD — Future guide dogs recently took an educational visit to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
The good boys and girls practiced going through the security checkpoints. The pooches also sniffed around the baggage claim and explored the check-in counters.
This experience will help the guide dogs in training when they graduate and return to the airport to lead somebody with limited vision.
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The 14 dogs were all from the Baltimore Puppy Raising Region of Guiding Eyes for the Blind. The trip came in partnership with the Transportation Security Administration.
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Christopher Murgia, TSA's federal security director for Maryland, said the training helped TSA officers brush up on the policies for screening service animals.
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“The orientation session was a hit with the dog trainers, the TSA officers and of course with the dogs. There was plenty of tail wagging,” Murgia said in a press release after the puppies visited on Oct. 17. “The collaborative effort benefitted the guide dogs, the airport and TSA and will go a long way to ensuring that the dogs and their eventual owners will have a smooth checkpoint experience in the future.”
These airports have also hosted similar TSA checkpoint orientations:
- Greater Binghamton Airport
- Elmira Corning Regional Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International Airport
- LaGuardia Airport
- Westchester County Airport
- Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport
- Long Island MacArthur Airport
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