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Message: <blockquote data-quote="punaruwan" data-source="post: 10684006" data-attributes="member: 174822">මචං මගේ පලවෙනි Thread  එක................The Dog That Cornered Osama Bin Laden   When  U.S. President Barack Obama went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, last week  for a highly publicized but very private meeting with the commando team  that killed Osama bin Laden, only one of the 81 members of the  super-secret SEAL DevGru unit was identified by name: Cairo, the war  dog.       Cairo,  like most canine members of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, is a Belgian  Malinois. The Malinois breed is similar to German shepherds but smaller  and more compact, with an adult male weighing in the 30-kilo range.         <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.7&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.1&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      (German  shepherds are still used as war dogs by the American military but the  lighter, stubbier Malinois is considered better for the tandem parachute  jumping and rappelling operations often undertaken by SEAL teams.  Labrador retrievers are also favoured by various military organizations  around the world.)         <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.6&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.2&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.10&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.3&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Like their human  counterparts, the dog SEALs are highly trained, highly skilled, highly  motivated special ops experts, able to perform extraordinary military  missions by SEa, Air and Land (thus the acronym).       The dogs carry  out a wide range of specialized duties for the military teams to which  they are attached: With a sense of smell 40 times greater than a  humanâ€™s, the dogs are trained to detect and identify both explosive  material and hostile or hiding humans.       The dogs are twice as fast as a fit human, so anyone trying to escape is not likely to outrun Cairo or his buddies.     <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.5&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.4&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      The dogs,  equipped with video cameras, also enter certain danger zones first,  allowing their handlers to see whatâ€™s ahead before humans follow.      As I mentioned  before, SEAL dogs are even trained parachutists, jumping either in  tandem with their handlers or solo, if the jump is into water.      Last year canine  parachute instructor Mike Forsythe and his dog Cara set the world  record for highest man-dog parachute deployment, jumping from more than  30,100 feet up â€” the altitude transoceanic passenger jets fly at. Both  Forsythe and Cara were wearing oxygen masks and skin protectors for the  jump.       Hereâ€™s a photo from that jump, taken by Andy Anderson for K9 Storm Inc. (more about those folks shortly).     <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.5&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      As well, the dogs are faithful, fearless and ferocious â€” incredibly frightening and efficient attackers.   I have seen it  reported repeatedly that the teeth of SEAL war dogs are replaced with  titanium implants that are stronger, sharper and scare-your-pants-off  intimidating, but a U.S. military spokesman has denied that charge, so I  really donâ€™t know (never having seen a canine SEAL face-to-face). I  do know that Iâ€™ve never seen a photo of a war dog with anything even  vaguely resembling a set of shiny metal chompers.       When the SEAL  DevGru team (usually known by its old designation, Team 6) hit bin  Ladenâ€™s Pakistan compound on May 2, Cairoâ€™s feet would have been  four of the first on the ground.       And like the  human SEALs, Cairo was wearing super-strong, flexible body armour and  outfitted with high-tech equipment that included â€œdogglesâ€ â€”  specially designed and fitted dog googles with night-vision and infrared  capability that would even allow Cairo to see human heat forms through  concrete walls.       Now where on earth would anyone get that kind of incredibly niche hi-tech doggie gear?   From Winnipeg, of all places.   Jim and Glori  Slaterâ€™s Manitoba hi-tech mom-and-pop business, K9 Storm Inc., has a  deserved worldwide reputation for designing and manufacturing probably  the best body armour available for police and military dogs. Working  dogs in 15 countries around the world are currently protected by their  K9 Storm body armour.         <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.9&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.6&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Jim Slater was a  canine handler on the Winnipeg Police Force when he crafted a Kevlar  protective jacket for his own dog, Olaf, in the mid-1990s. Soon Slater  was making body armour for other cop dogs, then the Canadian military  and soon the world.       The standard K9 Storm vest also has a load-bearing harness system that makes it ideal for tandem rappelling and parachuting.    <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.8&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.7&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>       And then there  are the special hi-tech add-ons that made the K9 Storm especially  appealing to the U.S. Navy SEALs, who bought four of K9 Storm Inc.â€™s  top-end Intruder â€œcanine tactical assault suitsâ€ last year for  $86,000. You can be sure Cairo was wearing one of those four suits when  he jumped into bin Ladenâ€™s lair.       Hereâ€™s an explanation of all the K9 Storm Intruder special features:     <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.4&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.8&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Just as the Navy  SEALS and other elite special forces are the sharp point of the  American military machine, so too are their dogs at the top of a canine  military heirarchy.       In all, the U.S.  military currently has about 2,800 active-duty dogs deployed around the  world, with roughly 600 now in Afghanistan and Iraq.      Hereâ€™s the link to a dandy photo essay about U.S. war dogsthat just appeared in the journal Foreign Policy.       Several of the photos I have included here are from Foreign Policy, as you will see. Other photos are from K9 Storm Inc.     <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.9&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>    <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1543900fae&view=att&th=131272e31d5716b2&attid=0.2&disp=emb&realattid=7ea2bdf32a00b81f_0.1.10&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      As for the  ethics of sending dogs to war, thatâ€™s pretty much a moot point,  donâ€™t you think? If itâ€™s ethical to send humans into combat, then  why not dogs?       At least the  U.S. now treats its war dogs as full members of the military. At the end  of the Vietnam War, the U.S. combat dogs there were designated as  â€œsurplus military equipmentâ€ and left behind when American forces  pulled out.</blockquote>

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