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US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

San Diego is home to the Navy's Marine Mammal program which includes dolphins and sea lions trained to find and mark the location of different underwater objects including mines, people and other items of interest. At their training facility on Point Loma, the animals are exercised and cared for in a regimen that rivals that of human athletes. Photography by John Gibbins/U-T San Diego

1 posted on 12/01/2012 5:15:19 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

Before I express sympathy I want to know if the dolphins voted for 0bama.


2 posted on 12/01/2012 5:17:46 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: DogByte6RER; John Semmens

oh.. for a sec there I thought we were outsourcing to Indian and Chinese children...


3 posted on 12/01/2012 5:18:23 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Knifefish Robot POTUS to Flipper: "This is your replacemnt. Train him to do your job; your food stamps and unemployment check are in the mail."
4 posted on 12/01/2012 5:18:42 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

They call him flipper flipper..


5 posted on 12/01/2012 5:19:37 PM PST by ILS21R (Everything... IS... a conspiracy)
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To: DogByte6RER; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

More work Mexicans will take that nobody else wants?


7 posted on 12/01/2012 5:38:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: DogByte6RER

Dr Gillian Taylor: You’re not from the military are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that?

Admiral Kirk: No, ma’am. No dipshit.


8 posted on 12/01/2012 6:02:00 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DogByte6RER

If our enemy develops underwater ecm will the UUV still work?


9 posted on 12/01/2012 6:13:31 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party: advancing indenture since 1787.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Seven years to train a dolphin? He’ll never repay that student loan.


10 posted on 12/01/2012 6:14:49 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DogByte6RER

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/dolphins-kill-porpoises_n_1106471.html

Yeah and if the dolphins stay unemployed that is good, why are we hiring genocidal rapist dolphins anyhow?

Maybe the Japanese were right about killing them....


12 posted on 12/01/2012 6:31:56 PM PST by GraceG
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To: DogByte6RER

Looks to me like that sea lion in pic #5 needs a major trip to the dentist.


14 posted on 12/01/2012 7:24:23 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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