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| Branch | U.S. Navy |
| Series | OPNAVINST |
| Publication date | 2019-01-17 (7.7 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | N46 |
| Source of record | DON Issuances (DONI) |
This publication establishes policy for DoD personnel on the proper disposition of military working dogs, regardless of the method of procurement, in accordance with Title 10 U.S.C. § 2583, Military Animals: Transfer and Adoption. This publication provides mandated Congressional Changes in the adoption process for military working dogs as established in the National Defense Act of 2018. It also mandates Service MWD Program Managers (PMs) maintain accurate data in the DoD Working Dog Management System (WDMS), to include any non-traditional program dogs. Furthermore, this change relocates adoption forms to the WDMS library
Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.
If OPNAVINST 5585.3B changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.