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FBI Bomb Dog

Description: FBI bomb dog outside Bureau Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Key personnel in the FBI come with four legs and partner with skilled handlers. These highly trained FBI team units are dogs with such high levels of training that they can detect about 19,000 different combinations of explosives. They are team members so highly valued that when killed in the line of duty, they are buried in child-sized steel coffins. Labrador retrievers are the chosen breed for this task. The FBI started its K-9 unit in 1999. Before that, they contracted dogs for this purpose. The handlers of the dogs are FBI Special Agents who frequently come from backgrounds in fighting terrorism, all too often conducted with explosives, or working with the bomb squads of local law enforcement agencies. The sense of smell of dogs is so sensitive that they can detect one teaspoon of sugar diluted in a swimming pool. This keen sense is highly useful in detecting explosives. Ranging from gun powder to TNT, today’s criminals use a sophisticated array of chemicals for nefarious purposes. February 22, 2013.

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Size: 2994px × 4500px (~38 MB)

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