Article 77. How to Eliminate Methamphetamine Production in your State
Methamphetamine laboratories have grown significantly from what used to be a small town drug to a national phenomenon. Recognized as a danger to the environment as well as to the children of the drug addicts. When the ingredients for making the drug are dumped down the drain it can poison the municipal water supply. Laws have been passed in most states to limit the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine one of its main ingredients.
Citizens of some states have been asked to pay close attention to any unusual smells in their neighborhoods which is the main way that methamphetamine labs are found. But there is a more effective way of doing this.
Dogs trained to smell methamphetamine can do so easily at some distance from the source. A drug enforcement officer in an unmarked car can drive through the streets of a small town with a trained dog and identify ALL of the methamphetamine labs in the town in less than a couple of hours. So why has this not been done before probably because the dogs have to be trained.
I have recommended that the federal government setup a national dog training facility probably at an abandoned military base. The facility would train bomb sniffing dogs for the nations airports, train stations and subways. Dogs are much more efficient when it comes to screening luggage than a machine. The same facility could be used to train drug sniffing dogs and their handlers.
I have also recommended that dogs equipped with special breathing apparatuses be used to deliver breathing and communication equipment to trapped miners when it is unsafe for mine rescuers to enter the mine.
Now for the main reason that the military should be training dogs. Here are two examples. In the first we are losing soldiers daily killed by roadside bombs. A team of bomb sniffing dogs could be sent out ahead of the armored convoy to sniff out the roadside bombs while our troops watch from a safe distance. These deaths are unnecessary. As an aside to this I have also recommended the use of unmanned planes with day and night TV capabilities to continually monitor the main streets and highways our military convoys use. The planes could easily knockout anyone planting a roadside bomb.
The second example is when our troops are patrolling the streets of a hostile city dog teams could be sent out ahead of the patrol with radio and GPS equipment to identify the exact position where explosives and potential ambushers await. The reason these examples are not being used is that we still using the same tactics that we used in World War II.
For more information see:
Article 43. Rescuing Homeland Security and protecting America
Article 67. Comments on 9-11 Report Card and the Nation’s Terrorist Threat
Article 73. Mine Safety Training Appears to be Approaching Human Limits
