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Must-see morning clip: America’s bomb-sniffing dogs

"60 Minutes" shows what goes into training the military's most elite animals

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(Credit: Don Lee, 60 Minutes)
(Credit: Don Lee, 60 Minutes)

Bomb-sniffing dogs “have been used more than ever” since 9/11, reports “60 Minutes'” Lara Logan, “because nothing has proven more effective against hidden bombs than the nose of a working dog.”

The news program offered a rare glimpse into the training of the elite dogs on Sunday, interviewing
Green Beret Chris Corbin and his dog, Ax, who led their unit through a battlefield filled with hidden bombs in Afghanistan.

Corbin says that the dogs feel “invincible.”

“We don’t train them to fail,” he told Logan.


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