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From: cga66@ihlpy.att.com (Patrick V Kauffold)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Blasting Sadam's Bunker(s)
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.032050.17268@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 03:20:50 GMT
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From: cga66@ihlpy.att.com (Patrick V Kauffold)
> I have another idea for going after bunkers. How about training
> some sort of animal to climb down airshafts? . . .
> . . .  fuzes the satchel charge in the monkey's vest.)

The animal rights people have objected strenuously to uses of animals
for war, particularly when the animal might get killed.  Yes, really.

The navy experimented with using bottle-nose dolphins (California
dolphin, or something like) to place demolitions and limpet mines.
They also experimented with using sea lions for similar missions;
both animals were trained to help divers in non-combat types of 
diving operations.