I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about Rin Tin Tin, and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.
The First Battle of Bull Run would also see the first use of a system of semaphore flags to send the equivalent of a Morse code, to transmit complex information across miles; one such message played a critical role in the battle, alerting the Confederates to a surprise Union maneuver.
Though Wolf betrays him and joins Rex in the life-or-death fight, Lad manages to get close enough to the house for Bruce to hear the battle and alert the Master and Mistress.
In New Guinea, the Asmat once played bamboo trumpets (fu) to frighten an enemy during battle and to alert a village that the victorious warriors were coming home with the corpses of the foes.
If Goliath had acromegaly, the author writes, then it is possible he also suffered from apnea, "and it may be assumed that his daytime sleepiness was an impediment in his battle against the alert and agile David".
"The post-9/11 storyline has had a significant number of continuations," said David F. Poltrack, executive vice president of research at CBS. "There may be a big battle, another terrorism alert, new steps in airport security".
Samuels and Stokes have engaged in a fierce running battle in Grenada, twice alerting umpires with their verbal barrages in the middle.
But, in what may be the quintessential not-in-my-backyard battle for these terror-alert times, residents of the surrounding neighborhoods -- with their luxury loft conversions, historic town houses and bustling civic center -- want nothing to do with it.
Military commanders could conceivably use the sensors to identify the most alert and battle-ready soldiers to serve as the mission's point people.
