maritimee:Sgt. So Long, Farewell: Sergeant Eric Campbell crouches on the snowy ground to shake the p
maritimee:Sgt. So Long, Farewell: Sergeant Eric Campbell crouches on the snowy ground to shake the paw of Dean, a veteran mine dog, as he prepares to depart Korea in March 1956. According to Anna M. Waller's 1958 report entitled "Dogs and National Defense," the United States first employed a mine detection unit in 1943. These canines were trained to "to detect buried objects of all kinds ... more particularly non-metallic mines, anti-tank and anti-tank personnel mines, trip wires and booby traps. [The dog were] was taught to indicate the position of a buried mine by sitting down from one to four paces from the concealed objects. If he detected a trip wire or booby trap he was trained to halt or refuse to advance." -- source link
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