{"id":23361,"date":"2011-05-12T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2011-05-12T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:46:07","slug":"the-dogs-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23361","title":{"rendered":"The Dogs of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12dog2-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23360\" title=\"12dog2-articleLarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12dog2-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12dog2-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12dog2-articleLarge-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/12\/world\/middleeast\/12dog.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">New York Times<\/a> reports on the dogs who follow us, and sometimes lead us, into this nation&#8217;s conflicts like the one in the photo above making a practice jump with the 10th Special Forces group over the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American troops may be starting to come home this summer, but more dogs are going in. In 2007, the Marines began a pilot program in Afghanistan with nine bomb-sniffing dogs, a number that has grown to 350 and is expected to reach nearly 650 by the end of the year. Over all, there are some 2,700 dogs on active duty in the American military. A decade ago, before the Sept. 11 attacks, there were 1,800.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the public isn\u2019t aware of what these dogs add to national security,\u201d said Gerry Proctor, a spokesman for training programs at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, including the Military Working Dog School. Dogs are used for protection, pursuit, tracking and search and rescue, but the military is also increasingly relying on them to sniff out the homemade bombs that cause the vast majority of American casualties in Afghanistan. So far, no human or human-made technology can do better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HALO-Dog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23363\" title=\"HALO Dog2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HALO-Dog2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HALO-Dog2.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HALO-Dog2-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on the dogs who follow us, and sometimes lead us, into &hellip; <a title=\"The Dogs of War\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23361\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dogs of War<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}