After Breeding Success, Marine Working Dogs May Get More Shipboard Duty

The Marine Corps is considering more sea duty for its working dogs, reports the Marine Corps Times.

Three trained dogs recently returned from a nine-month deployment at sea with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

The animals -- a tracking dog, bomb dog and an attack dog -- provided the Marines additional capabilities when they made landfall, Col. William Dunn, the 22nd MEU chief, told a briefing last month at the Potomac Institute near Washington, D.C. He termed the dogs a...