PACESETTER K9
Drug Dogs
Bomb Dogs
Tracking Dogs
Dual Purpose Dogs
K9 Handler Training
Corporate Manager and Training Director Brad Langham
Brad Langham served in the United States NAVY from 2002 to 2010 as a Military Police K9 Officer. Brad started working with Military Working Dogs in 2002 while stationed on Guam Naval Base. He completed his Basic canine handler’s course in 2004 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX. During his time as a canine handler, Brad made 2 combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During these combat deployments his hard work and dedication resulted in his K9 team finding over 24,000 pounds of explosives. His leadership led to becoming a kennel supervisor for the United States NAVY. As the kennel supervisor, Brad was responsible for ten K9 teams, coordinating combat missions, maintaining all daily paperwork, ensuring all supplies were readily available, and coordinated personnel incoming and outgoing from the country, all while staying in contact with the units in or around the base. He setup and taught one of the first canine handler courses to be held in Al-Kut, Iraq. Working through the language barrier, this course taught Iraqi police officers basic obedience and proper handling of their canines. As a Military working dog handler, Brad certified on 4 separate detection dogs and has attended the Advanced Canine Combat Readiness Course held in Yuma, AZ.
Brad left active duty in 2010, however he continued to serve his country by remaining in the United States NAVY Reserves as a Military Police Officer, retiring in 2022. From the years 2010 to 2014, Brad ran the day to day operations for a civilian canine company. While there, he was in charge of training all canines, maintaining all equipment, and making sure paperwork was up to date on up to 80 canines at any given time. He also tested and selected new incoming canines during the procurement process, taught the basic handlers course to over 300 police officers, and matched K9 handlers with their perfect canine that has made them productive in their career. Brad has also delivered over 30 canines to families across the U.S. for personal protection. During these deliveries he made sure the canine was comfortable in the home and the clients knew the proper use of the canine. He was responsible for maintaining contact with the clients and talking to potential new clients. He assisted many police departments in setting up their new K9 programs. Brad also ensured all canines were maintained medically and kennel cleaning and maintenance was completed daily.
Alex Quimet
K9 Trainer
Alex Quimet served over 3 years in the United States Marine Corp as a Military Police Officer and Military Working Dog Handler. He has an additional 3 years of experience in civilian security and K9 training and handling.
Alex’s experience includes handling patrol and detection dogs as well as combat tracking, K9 training, K9 bite work decoy, and K9 first aid and veterinary technician duties.
Alex’s experience includes handling patrol and detection dogs as well as combat tracking, K9 training, K9 bite work decoy, and K9 first aid and veterinary technician duties.
Aaron Kimes K9 Trainer
Aaron Kimes served 15 years in the United States Army, during which time he served as both a Specialized Search Dog teams trainer, handler, and coordinator and a Combat Engineer.
Aaron’s experience includes handling and training of both explosives detection and narcotics detection K9s, training K9 teams, and combat canine utilization and searches. He holds degrees in both Criminal Justice and Firearms Technology, and he has 3+ years additional experience training Police K9s and handlers in the private sector.
Brian Dirner K9 Trainer
Brian served in the US Marine Corps for 4 years, then served 26 years with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office, where he was a K9 handler and trainer.
Brian also worked 3 years as an Explosives Detection Dog handler in Iraq as a civilian contractor.
Thomas R. Watkins III K9 Trainer
Thomas served 9 years and 6 months in the USAF serving as a Military Working Dog Handler/ Trainer.
He was stationed at Grand Forks AFB, where he validated and certified on two Dual purpose MWDs, conducting secret service missions for the POTUS, deploying to Tyndall AFB for hurricane relief, and deploying to Jordan. Following that duty, he was stationed at Langley AFB, where he certified and validated on two MWDs that he deployed with to Saudi Arabia. His duties included multiple secret service sweeps for explosives and providing anti-terrorism measures.
He graduated from the Trainer/ Kennel Masters Course at Lackland AFB and took on the role as MWD Trainer, where he created training plans for each K9 team, held custodial supervision over the explosive and narcotics account, and validated and certified dog teams to deploy. He conducted joint training with local PDs in the Hampton, VA area and ATF, and was in charge of conducting the initial training for the new MWDs that arrived on station and fixing training deficiencies in MWDs so they could be utilized for their full potential in serving to secure the base and be deployable.
He was stationed at Grand Forks AFB, where he validated and certified on two Dual purpose MWDs, conducting secret service missions for the POTUS, deploying to Tyndall AFB for hurricane relief, and deploying to Jordan. Following that duty, he was stationed at Langley AFB, where he certified and validated on two MWDs that he deployed with to Saudi Arabia. His duties included multiple secret service sweeps for explosives and providing anti-terrorism measures.
He graduated from the Trainer/ Kennel Masters Course at Lackland AFB and took on the role as MWD Trainer, where he created training plans for each K9 team, held custodial supervision over the explosive and narcotics account, and validated and certified dog teams to deploy. He conducted joint training with local PDs in the Hampton, VA area and ATF, and was in charge of conducting the initial training for the new MWDs that arrived on station and fixing training deficiencies in MWDs so they could be utilized for their full potential in serving to secure the base and be deployable.
CEO Michele Langham
In 2007 Michele Langham became a certified peace officer for the State of Texas and began working for a police department in Central Texas.
2007-2010- Night shift patrol Officer and Corporal.
2010-2011- Property Crimes Detective.
2011-2014- local Narcotics Detective.
2014-2020- DEA Austin HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) Task Force Officer.
2020-2021- Transferred to the Corporal/Detective spot in Crimes Against Persons.
2021-present- Sergeant over the Major Crimes Unit.
Michele has been recognized for excellence numerous times, including:
* Master Peace Officer
*2011 Chief’s Award of Excellence
*2012 Texas Narcotics Officers Association- Narcotic Officer of Year
*2012 Officer of Year
*2017 & 2019 DEA Houston Division Award for Exceptional Service
*2017 Texas Narcotics Officers Association- Narcotics Unit of the Year
*2019 DEA Administrator’s Award for Unit of the Year.
PACESETTER K9 IS A PROUD PARTNER OF K9s4COPS AND K9s OF VALOR
K9s4COPs is a nonprofit foundation whose mission is to build a safer future by donating fully trained K9s to communities and schools.
Visit them at https://www.k9s4cops.org/
K9s of Valor is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization
whose mission is to support police K9 officers across the country and keep them safe.
Pacesetter K9 has partnered with them as a K9 vendor.
Visit them at https://www.k9sofvalor.org
PACESETTER K9 DOGS IN COMPETITION
Congratulations to the Pacesetter K9 dog teams on receiving awards during the 3rd Annual South Texas Police K9 Competition!
Live Oak PD Officer Wall and K9 Warrant- 3rd Place in Fast Dog Competition
Laredo PD Officer Castillo and K9 Chado- 2nd Place in Patrol Scenarios.
PACESETTER K9 In the news
KLTV News
New K-9 at Smith Co. Pct 5 Office ...
By Kim Leoffler, Multi-Media Journalist
WacoTrib.com
Hewitt Police Department gets new K-9 Officer
By CASSIE L. SMITH
Photos by Jerry Larson
KVUE News
Bertram PD gets new K-9 Officer
The Liberty Hill Independent
Navy Vet training dogs to protect, serve
by Christine Bolanos
Amplify News
This Start-up Breeds Success
Article by Jim Baker
Photo by David Weaver
Thank You University of Texas!
Pacesetter K9 would like to extend our thanks to
Coach Michael Center
and the University of Texas Tennis Team
for their generous donation of tennis balls.
HookEmHorns!.