CENTCOM Cofirms DOLPHINS Mine Sweeping Humanitarian Aid Shipping Lanes

Associated Press Wire ^ | March 25, 2003 | Brien Ahn

[ewing]

Just confirmed at the press conference, truly a 21st Century War..

[ewing]

FYI, the dolphins name is 'K-Dog' from 55th Commander Task Unit

[Enterprise]

Chuckie would give a great military interview. Just let one of those dopey reporters ask a typically stupid question and Chuckie would give them "the look."

[finnman69]

Now if we can just train anti-war protesters to clear minefieilds on land.....

[ewing]

LOL! I'd settle for a few peaceniks to go land mine swimming to try and 'save' flipper.

[glasseye]

Now that is what I call 'DOLPHIN SAFE'!!!

[Enterprise]

Dopey Reporter: Duh, General Davis, what is your strategy?

Raider General Al Davis: "Just win baby."

[ewing]

Great one..

[Vigilantcitizen]

By God, I love General Patton. ; ^ )>

[ewing]

LOL! Just don't let Jerry Jones get in the middle of this..

[ewing]

[denydenydeny]

The best thing about this story is that it's another bright and shiny object that will distract the media for at least a day, and save them from speculating about quagmires.

[Illbay]

David Brin Bump!

[ewing]

If this was planned or not, I'm just glad the job is getting done!

[Snerfling]

The most fun I ever had at a beach was walking waist deep in water and the dolphins farther offshore keeping a curiosity driven pace. I got a dreadful sunburn! Love those dolphins!

Dolphins are like dogs - they are very social animals and love being around humans. In SoCal, they just love to surf and hang around with the surfers. On almost any day of the week, you'll see pods of them jumping into the air and body surfing at Huntington Beach. When a swell is running and there are lots of surfers out (like today), they love to cruise right through the line-up. Sometimes you can almost reach over and give them a pet as they swim by.

[Snowy]

I bet the dolphins love doing this. While training an animal to do something like this, any trainer will tell you that it is very important that you make this 'work' fun for the animal - like a game.

[ewing]

And they get lots of treats..

[rudypoot]

Actually, using dolphins for underwater operations are not new. We started this concept as far back as the '60s.

[Mr. Bird]

What's next, wallabees of mass destruction?

[templar]

so how do the iraqis kill them- mass netting?

Don't you suppose that Iraqi boats putting out nets might be noticed?

[Chad Fairbanks]

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