Picture of the day
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yeah, i wish i could get 30 years out of a change of clothes
Human blood? Dog blood? Just plasma? Saline?
Seeing a dog grieving over the body of one of his soldiers was too much even for Napoleon, who was used to seeing bodies in heaps. I believe there is a painting of the scene.
This picture reminds me of the stories of men getting emergency infusions of coconut water when saline, plasma, etc., weren't available.
Used mostly by Brits and Japanese in the Pacific.
have a google of greyfriars bobby, a skye terrier that was a policemans dog. he stayed at the grave of his master for 14 years.
Yup, especially strays. That's one reason so many of them get put down when a new base in a hot zone gets established. Those dogs are often feral and live off the land. Human wastes of one sort or another are often all that is available. In some areas the dogs are a food source for the locals as well. They can be delicious when cooked properly. That dog is a soldier and is being treated as such.
When the US evacuated Viet Nam there is a rumor they euthanized all of the dogs they had brought over. Some of them were smuggled home but for the most part they were destroyed before the enemy could capture them. Very valuable tools of war and very expensive to train and maintain. The invading forces of NVA would have loved to have them for their own use.
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The Germans were evidently nicer to their dogs than the Russians were to theirs:
The Germans were evidently nicer to their dogs than the Russians were to theirs:
Nasty business, that. Trained dogs to run under enemy tanks, with explosive packs.
Problem was, they used their own tanks, to train the dogs... and in the general state of confusion that combat situations involve, the dogs often just ran right back to hide under the soviet tanks...
Someone once sent me a video of a dog that accompanied it's owner every day as she went to church. When she died, the dog showed up daily and lay at the spot here it's owner sat.
The love and loyalty of dogs is humbling.
"Lord, help me to become half the man my dog thinks I am."
The love and loyalty of dogs is humbling.
"Lord, help me to become half the man my dog thinks I am."
Someone once sent me a video of a dog that accompanied it's owner every day as she went to church. When she died, the dog showed up daily for years and lay at the spot here it's owner sat.
The love and loyalty of dogs is humbling.
"Lord, help me to become half the man my dog thinks I am."
The love and loyalty of dogs is humbling.
"Lord, help me to become half the man my dog thinks I am."
Dark Alley Dan
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Waaaaaay ahead of you, mate. 
Dark Alley Dan
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ME 109G in Bulgarian markings.
Can't argue with the visibility of it. No mistaking that insignia for anything else.
Can't argue with the visibility of it. No mistaking that insignia for anything else.
It is called a control horn - helps off set flight control load and may also contain weight for mass balance.
Dan
