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Salute to rescue dogs
They find lost children in the snow, rescue skiers who never would have returned, and search for lost hikers in the woods. They sift through the wreckage of bombing sites and battlefields for the injured and missing in action. They offer comfort and joy to the sick and elderly in hospitals, shelters, and nursing homes. They stood at the very edge of the battlefront for more than 4,000 years. With their strict training and honing of tracking skills, rescue dogs are often more effective in search and rescue teams than are humans.
Not only have rescue dogs served in the U.S. military through every modern war-- WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, and in Bosnia and Afghanistan-- they have a history that dates back to the ancient Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians. In their early fighting centuries, mastiffs wore spiked collars in battle and were strictly trained to attack enemies. The Romans trained whole war-dog units, dressed in armor and unleashed at the most forward line of battle. Their job was to collectively attack the enemies' legs, offering enough distraction to cause vulnerability in the enemies front lines.
War dogs were used in the middle ages to defend caravans, and used in Napoleon's time as sentries.
Today, several organizations, both federal and volunteer, focus on training dogs for a variety of rescue missions. Avalanche dogs help to find anything lost in the snow. When scouts or lost hikers don't come home, wilderness dogs are used to find them. There are cadaver dogs, who are mainly used in missing persons cases where the likely outcome will be a dead body. Two major search and rescue dog training groups are NASAR and SEMA USAR. The U.S. military also maintains police dogs.
Resue dogs were there to pull victims out of the devastation of Ground Zero in New York, working 16 hour days, sifting through sites too unstable for human search teams.
There are now groups that organize owners and their dogs to visit hospitals and other institutions to help cheer the injured or elderly. They're called "therapy dogs."
Rescue dogs have more than fulfilled the title of "man's best friend," saving millions of lives throughout civilization, and bringing hope where all hope is lost.
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