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Show Military Again Training Dogs Animals Are All German Shepherds PHE ARMY is resuming its formal for-mal training of dogs for military use for tiie first time since World War II. There are several differences however, between the wartime "K-9" "K-9" corps and the present program. This time the army will accept no " donated dogs, and aU the animals purchased will ho n - c i ui a n Shepherds. In World War II the armed services serv-ices acquired more than 18,000 dogs of many breeds. Some were lent others were donated by their owners' Only 10,452 of these saw service' Some arrived at training centers too late. Some just couldn't stand the military life. Training of dogs in the new program pro-gram has been entrusted to the provost marshal general, and a special spe-cial center to teach both dogs and handlers has been set up at Camp Carson, Colorado. The new center will supplement the present limited use of army dogs, a few of which holdovers from wartime training' are on guard and patrol duty in Korea. Ko-rea. The dogs will be trained primarily for sentry duty, as were the majority of canine recruits in the 1941-45 war. In that conflict, however dogs were also employed for scout and messenger work, as sledge dogs and tor mine detection. The best military dogs are "work-ing "work-ing dogs" ia the truest sense. Thev are not hunters of wild game and eyr!,"0t PetS- Ge"nan Shepherd is one of the most popular Hnf m,th.l working" classifies ho and other working dogs, such as Doberman Pinschers and Boxers have proved successful on military Military employment of the working work-ing dog, as opposed to the hunter or tracker, is centuries old. In the Ro man conquest of Gaul, both sides used fighting dogs, .some of them armored or with collar knives |