Army Dogs Mishandled After Coming Home From Afghanistan, Pentagon Report Says

Army Dogs Mishandled After Coming Home From Afghanistan, Pentagon Report Says
US Army Specialist Justin Coletti resting with Dasty, a Belgian Malinois at an airfield of Forward Operating Base Pasab in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2011. Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images
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A Department of Defense report says that bomb-sniffing Army dogs were not properly cared for after coming back from duty in Afghanistan.

“You can credit these dogs with saving at least dozens of lives and probably more because they sniffed out the improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs, so they risked their own lives saving the troops who otherwise might have walked over them or ran over them with their vehicles,” said Reuters correspondent Scot Paltrow.
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