Rebecca Frankel: "War Dogs"
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Members of the US 159 Combat Aviation Brigade medevac crews play with Major Eden, a morale dog, while waiting for a mission at Bagram Airfield some 60kms north of Kabul.
(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Dogs were not officially made a part of the U.S. military until 1942. But their history of working on battlefields worldwide stretches back much further. Today, American military working dogs detect improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, with remarkable accuracy. They also provide comfort to men and women in uniform suffering emotional and physical wounds of war. But they are not always given the recognition that journalist Rebecca Frankel believes they deserve. When she began her weekly column on U.S. war dogs in 2010, she found that many were unaware of the critical role they can play in U.S. military missions. Frankel joins Diane to take us inside the world of war dogs.
Guests
Rebecca Frankel
senior editor, special projects at Foreign Policy Magazine; author of "War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love."
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Excerpted from "War Dogs" by Rebecca Frankel. Copyright 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan Trade. All rights reserved.
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