Soldier and his dog die hours apart
Three hours after Lance Corporal Liam Tasker was shot and killed in Afghanistan, his bomb-sniffing dog suffered a seizure and died. Tasker, of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, was shot while on patrol...
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Sergeant Rex, a bomb-sniffing dog who finally returned from duty in Iraq earlier this year and was reunited with his former handler, died Saturday at the age of 11. Rex was assigned to Cpl. Megan...
View Article“60 Minutes” on bomb-sniffing dogs
60 Minutes looked at bomb-sniffing dogs in a report that, especially given last night’s other featured stories — on the Marathon bombing and the 9/11 Memorial — brought home not just how many lives...
View ArticleBittersweet: It’s a small, and violent, world
Here’s a sad and happy story rolled into one, about a service dog destined to help a soldier who lost both his legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan ending up with another soldier who lost both his...
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