Comment to 'Big pit at serious work'
  • No SF organizations really don't. The only dog of worth in the military for operations is bomb sniffers. I am talking tactical not police. There is no "special police",cops are cops are cops. The bomb sniffers are of any breed but a lot tend to be labs and mutts. The rest are dutch/gsd/mals. Dogs aren't needed for special tactical operations because they aren't feasible; there is no crowd control going on, cops do that, they aren't arresting non-compliant citizens, cops do that, and they generally kick in doors to capture or kill targets, none of which a dog is of any worth. But dogs are used on combat patrols when they can be had for thier ability to sniff out IED's and other munitions. Not because they are attack trained, attack trained dogs vs automatic rifles is as laughable as bringing a knife to a firefight. I am not trying to attack anyone just trying to take certain misconceptions out of the picture. Attack trained dogs are used by law enforcement types, not tactical operations in any military. But bomb sniffers are used, there aren't many and the concept has just been introduced at the latter end of the Iraq campaign. The majority are with Line Combat units not the SF as the SF doesn't do movement to contact tramping around through "The Shit" for 8 to 15 hours a day or more. Line Infantry, Armor, and Artillery (The Trifecta) do that, oh and our Engineer branch brothers. That isn't Special Operations.