Posted: 5/12/2011 10:05:37 AM EDT
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Great story in the NYT today on war dogs: The Dogs of War: Beloved Comrades in Afghanistan
With pictures: Four-Legged Warriors on the Battlefield And a link to a longer photoessay in Foreign Policy magazine: War Dog "In October 2010, the Pentagon announced that after six years and $19 billion spent in the attempt to build the ultimate bomb detector technology, dogs were still the most accurate sniffers around. The rate of detection with the Pentagon's fanciest equipment –– drones and aerial detectors –– was a 50 percent success rate, but when a dog was involved it rose 30 percent." 
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