By the time Stephen Mader suited up with a gun and a badge for Weirton, he had not only been trained for several years on how to safely and accurately assess life and death threats, he had actually done the work in a war zone as a Marine. His very job was to safely and carefully identify IED's in Afghanistan so that they could be disarmed without harming our troops or the communities they were in. By definition, particularly because he did this work alongside Maxx, the specially trained 4-year-old Labrador, who would feed off his energy, Mader had the gift of calmness.