Navy dolphins....

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Originally Posted by SeaQueen

No, but they are trained to do very dangerous things like scouting the way through minefields and marking the mines. They're actually a very important part of amphibious operations. The different marine mammals can find mines buried in the bottom and in the water column, in difficult acoustic environments, better than anything we have now.

They also use seals (not SEALs, but "arf arf" seals) for harbor security. Apparently, a swimmer attempting to attach a mine to the bottom of a ship, is probably going to get his butt kicked by one. They're sort of like the german shepards of the ocean.

They are imprtant, except when they run away like in Iraq 2003.

I just dont see how its viable to take a zoo of sea creatures around the world for operations.