{"id":1218,"date":"2003-12-22T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2010-09-18T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T22:33:05","slug":"brit-army-dog-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/brit-army-dog-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit Army Dog Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By JACK GARLAND, Associated Press Writer<\/p>\n<p>LONDON &#8211; Buster, a 6-year-old Springer spaniel, earned more than a pat on the head Tuesday when he was <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/britain_dog_honored\" class=\"external external_icon\">awarded Britain&#8217;s highest animal bravery medal for his role in breaking a resistance cell in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The British army canine received the Dickin Medal at a ceremony at London&#8217;s Imperial Museum for discovering a cache of weapons and explosives in Safwan, southern Iraq, in March.<\/p>\n<p>Buster&#8217;s handler, Sgt. Danny Morgan, said the building was thought to be the headquarters of extremists responsible for attacks on British forces, but that soldiers searching it had found nothing.<\/p>\n<p>He said Buster, however, persisted, eventually stopping and staring at a wardrobe. When the wardrobe was moved a piece of tin fell from the back, revealing a cavity.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were Russian AK47 assault rifles, a pistol, six grenades, ammunition, 4.4 pounds of cocaine and propaganda material.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, 38, who is based at the military dogs&#8217; training school in Aldershot, southern England, said it was &#8220;fantastic&#8221; for Buster to be recognized for succeeding where humans had failed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JACK GARLAND, Associated Press Writer LONDON &#8211; Buster, a 6-year-old Springer spaniel, earned more than a pat on the head Tuesday when he was awarded Britain&#8217;s highest animal bravery medal for his role in breaking a resistance cell in Iraq. The British army canine received the Dickin Medal at a ceremony at London&#8217;s Imperial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1818],"tags":[3331,3332,198],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-war","tag-army-dog","tag-awards","tag-british"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13826,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}