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Friday, August 27, 2010

Smart and fast, marine mammals are guarding our military bases

Sgt. Andrew Garrett trains a bottlenose dolphin equipped with a tracking device in the Arabian Gulf. While the military has deployed dolphins and other marine mammals since the 1960s, they will be brought to the Trident Submarine Base at Bangor for the first time this fall.