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U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Wounds

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live fire training exercises and prohibits ...
Stars and Stripes

Military ends ‘painful’ experiments on cats and dogs and stops shooting of animals in ‘trauma’ exercises

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...
Hartford Courant

Military dogs receive army ranks as Poland recognizes their service in protecting human life

NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland (AP) — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history. The group was made up ...

Watch: Military dog finds home with handler in holiday reunion

A veteran was able to come home for the holidays, and the military dog was adopted by his former handler. Darco, a ...
Eagle-Tribune

Poland thanks military dogs for their service by giving them army ranks

NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland (AP) — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history. The group was made up ...