Stealth Blackhawks, real-time action reporting, night vision and impeccably trained and equipped fighters were all a apart of the successful mission that took down Osama bin Laden. It turns out that you can add one piece of equipment that’s older than the catapult and just about every other weapon which has been used over the centuries to wage war — a dog.

The news that the Navy Seals had a war dog with them has everyone talking and demanding a picture. Since it’s going to be many, many, many years before we learn the identities of the men on the Seal team, it seems like it isn’t a lot to ask for a snapshot of the pooch. I’ll take it one step further and suggest that he (she?) should represent the team and be in the balcony next to the First Lady at the next State of the Union speech.