Below is present Dolphin problem in general: Dolphins used in 2nd Iraq invasion because in prior war game General Van Riper played the enemy and sunk most of the US fleet in the Persian Gulf. http://www.newshounds.us/2006/04/24/8th_retired_general_comes_out_against_rumsfeld.php and http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-03-20/news/17483558_1_littoral-combat-ship-pearl-harbor-cruise
One of the number of precautions: U.S. Dolphins were used, more than one platoon of them, (7 dolphins to a platoon). The skipper of the USS Gunsten Hall volunteered his ship. However the navy hand to keep flying in more and more animal trainers as right away a giant Dolphin boredom problem developed. > Today the US military keeps dolphins for suchs purposes. > > http://information.usnavyseals.com/2009/12/the-history-of-dolphins-in-us-navy-history.html > > Ole > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Akif / Chulo / El Ecologista / The Green Wrangler > To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:07 AM > Subject: [cia-drugs] ANTI - TANK DOGS ! > > > > Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog bombs or dog mines, were hungry dogs > with > explosives harnessed to their backs and trained to seek food under tanks > and > armoured vehicles. > > By doing so, a detonator (usually a small wooden lever) would go off, > triggering > the explosives and damaging or destroying the military vehicle. > > The dogs were employed by the Soviet Union during World War II for use > against > German tanks. The dogs were kept without food for a few days, then > trained to > find food under a tank. > > The dogs quickly learned that once released from their pens, food could > be found > under tracked vehicles. Once trained, the dogs were fitted with an > explosive > charge and set loose into a field of oncoming German tanks and other > tracked > vehicles. > > When the dog went underneath the tank-where there was less armour-the > charge > would detonate and damage the enemy vehicle. > > According to Soviet sources, the anti-tank dogs were successful at > disabling a > reported three hundred German tanks. They were enough of a problem to > the Nazi > advance that the Germans were compelled to take measures against them. > > An armoured vehicle's top-mounted machine gun proved ineffective due to > the > relatively small size of the dogs and the fact that they were low to the > ground, > fast, and hard to spot. Orders were dispatched that commanded every > German > soldier to shoot any dogs on sight. Eventually the Germans began using > tank-mounted flame-throwers to ward off the dogs. They were much more > successful > at dissuading the attacks, but some dogs would not stop. > > In 1942, one use of the anti-tank dogs went seriously awry when a large > contingent ran amok, endangering everyone in the battle and forcing the > retreat > of an entire Soviet division. > > Soon afterward the anti-tank dogs were withdrawn from service. Training > of > anti-tank dogs continued until at least June 1996. > > > >
