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Contents 1 Urgent! 2 Tone Tag 3 Modern Use 4 Dog usage in Vietnam 5 In fiction/In gaming

[edit] Urgent!

There are two topics in Wikipedia about "Wardog/War dogs"!!!

Wardog and War Dogs

Wardog is shorter.

I suggest we either merge Wardog with War Dogs, or just delete it entirely. Jak722 18:36, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Jak. I recently added in all information from the Wardogs article that was not already present in this article. The other article was mainly good for introduction purposes, though there were a few historic facts that were not present in this article. The Wardogs article no contains no information not present in this article, and as such I believe it should be deleted. All it is is a smaller repeat of this article. Stop Me Now! 16:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tone Tag

I recently came through and changed the wording to change the tone. Several places made references to the reader and the write (we, us). I removed these instances and rewrite portions of the article to be more formal. Seeing as to the lack of debate on this page, I will be removing the formal tone tag. If anyone disagrees, feel free to post here and replace the tag. The other tag, lack of sources cited, is my fault, as I wrote this article a few years ago and simple put my sources at the bottom and didn't actually cite the sources. Almost all of the information needed is in those pages, and I still don't fully get the how to cite sources, so anyone should feel free to fix that. I will be attempting to fix it later, as I have finals right now so time is really not a luxury. Stop Me Now! 14:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Use

It seems there is hardly any information about dogs in modern times in the military. The article briefly states that dogs were used during the Vietnam War. I am placing a link to a news article that discusses dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Feel free to cite from this article. HotOne121 02:57, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dog usage in Vietnam

It seems to me that the section mentioning Vietnam should be expanded to mention what happened to the dogs at the end of the war. This is a travesty that deserves to be documented. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.117.178.204 (talk) 22:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In fiction/In gaming

I'm not generally biased against trivia sections, but I really fail to see how this one benefits the article. Nothing in it seems relevant enough to work into the text, so unless someone wants to totally revamp this section, I vote to replace it with a sentence such as, "War dogs have become somewhat iconic, and appear occasionally in war-themed fiction and video games." Fullobeans (talk) 02:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC)