Working dogs: Domestic shortage of key frontline defense against terrorism | Military Times

For the first time in 15 years, the government conducted an in-depth examination of domestically bred working dogs, where they have found out that the U.S. remains dangerously short on working dogs. Working dogs are very important in security duties, including bomb-sniffing, narcotics interdiction, and anti-terrorism attacks. To address the shortage, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has authored a bill supporting assessing a program’s outlines to breed military working dogs domestically.

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