Fuck, liberals were right. US forces going AWOL.
 

"Takoma, the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, had been in Iraq for 48 hours when he went missing on his first operation to snoop out mines. "

... he was spotted at a peace demonstration in sydney yesterday ...

Takoma and his fellow mine hunters have a special diet, regular medical checks and their own sleeping quarters, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of the military whose domestic arrangements are basic, to say the least

Dolphins are probably more intelligent than your average ground pounder.

So my questions is!!

how many gazillion of dollars does US millitary spent for 20 years on this dolphin?

that dolphin is worth a helluva lot more than your useless ass.

Good one Amp :)

any clue how exactly the find mines? when i first heard about this, i assumed they just go out there and get blown up by the mines, but that would waste money.

do they have some sort of sensor that detects the mine and transmits the signal back to the navy/marines?

Hopefully enough to keep the program running for a while.

This "stupid dolphin" is guiding humanitarian aid ships into the Iraqi port after the Gulf had been seeded with mines.

just post your last 9 messages

and get the fuck out of here

when they find a mine they drop a marker next to it.

The dolphins use their built in sonar and then plant some sort of flag near the mine to signal.

i hope that bastard gets caught in a tuna net

Iraq has tuna fisherman?

crazyness... thanks amp/sly.
i want an evil dolphin to do my bidding.

so the dolphin is nothing like the navy dolphin in johnny mnemonic who uses his souped up sonar powers to kill jesus?

well you know dolphins have sonar,they can detect the mines from about 2 miles away... Any solid object that they know shouldn't be there,they alert the trainer and then swim to the object and drop a bowie next to it..Then they blow it up... TA-DA

no, but they can capture enemy divers.... they're trained to jam up to a diver with this thing that fits over their nose, and when they bump into their leg, it shackles/cuffs the diver, and sends a marker up to the surface so we can pick his ass up.... true stuff.

That's sick! I never knew that. Very cool.

:1orglaugh

anyone know where i can buy a dolphin and a dolphin tank?

or maybe sharks with lasers attached to their heads?

also they can penetrate submarines with their nose

and blow up scud missiles with an antiaircraft gun on their backs

true !!

I'll post these urls again...


http://www.nctimes.net/news/2001/20010506/a.html


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...c/navycron.html

Well one thing they don't do is speak French...proof alone they are one of the most intelligent creatures out there.

You mean they don't speak 'Freedom'

The dolphin came back btw. But peta says use of dolphins, chickens, dogs, in war effort is inhumane.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83116,00.html :BangBang:

They are used to protect our ships and subs when they are in a port.

Well, they slaughtered 250,000 dogs after Vietnam war.. Even after thousands of soldiers had asked to bring their dogs back, but they just killed them all. :(

Using dolphins is smart, even if you don't agree with it, the military dolphins are likely happier/better treated than any 'circus' ones... Hell, they're probably using the same dolphins from Sea World...

Cheers,
Matt

The use of dolphins can closely be compared to K9 units in police roles.

INstead of the dogs sense of 'smell' the dolphin is prized because of its 'sonar'.

Equally respected, well cared for, and most certainly missed and remembered when they fall.

I can remember seeing groups of 30+ LAPD crying when a 10 or 20 year K9 officer was shot during a drug deal on night, big news in LA, said that dog had caught more bad guys than some 10 year human officers.

I dont think its a bad thing.

:glugglug

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