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The AIT scanners cost close to $170,000 each.
Today, they're a central part of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan -- as of early 2010 the U.S. Army had 2,800 active-duty dogs deployed (the largest canine contingent in the world). And these numbers will continue to grow as these dogs become an ever-more-vital military asset.
The Lackland school simulates everything a dog could encounter on the job. Real explosives are hidden in cabinets, airplane seats and luggage. These dogs can pick up the scent in seconds and are taught to immediately sit when they find the bomb. Trainers believe the dogs would have detected the explosives found in the shoes of a passenger on an American Airlines flight from Paris last month.
"Everything that I have seen as far as the type of explosives that were in those shoes, if our dogs would have been put in a situation to detect it, in all probability they would have responded," says Air Force Sgt. John
Right now, only the nation's 39 busiest airports are protected with bomb sniffing dogs. The FAA wants to double that and protect 80 U.S. airports with a total of 300 dogs.
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by pikypiky
Sounds like your conditioning is complete, you are ready for Phase 2.
Anybody else?
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by thisguyrighthere
That's completely correct, good spin on it. Surely we can't fire a bunch of people, then we would be going in reverse....right?
The Patrol has been in charge of ferry security since 1993, said State Patrol Lieutenant Steve McCulley, and even had explosives-detecting dogs dating back to 1997. But it once responded just to 911 calls at the terminals, rather than the much larger job of stopping terrorism before it happens.
Originally posted by kevinunknown
Do dogs also sniff out knifes?