Is there a military working dog courses available to civilians?

No, not at all. It's too much of a liability. As Greek said sometimes to LEO's and sometimes even to military men from foreign countries but never civilians. If you want to be a K9 handler in the military you must join the military and work towards that goal. Dutch mentioned Calgary...the Canadian Mounties have the best tracking dogs in the WORLD bar NONE. I have heard of them training civilians but I'm not sure under what cirstances. Leerburg sells a video on hard surface tracking that the Canadian Mounties pretty much "teach". Also, militaries have the worst trained protection dogs on the planet. If you want to learn solid protection work you'd be better off gambling with a random sport protection training (sad, I know). It's best to learn from , those who train LEO's (hint hint). Try a Bernhard Flinks seminar and steer clear of Helmut...(you'll know who they are once you do the proper research required before trying to learn to train serious protection work).