The USMC is using and requesting more labrador retrievers to work as bomb detection dogs over in A-stan.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-09-30-1Adogs30_ST_N.htm
Labs are not, or have not been, typically considered good stock for war dogs - bombs, scouts, security, etc. But there are proving to be real good at sniffing bombs, apparently.
Some labs were used in Nam. But few. Mostly it was shepherds. Some thought the labs would deal well with the water and rice paddies. But they did not deal as well as the sheps with the noises of war - gunfire, explosions, etc.
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Shepherds were the breed most used in the Pacific in WWII. They did better in the heat than even the Dobbies. I think a wide variety of breeds was used in Europe.
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