Red and Rover by Brian Basset for June 07, 2019

Do not feed the enemy! I’ve seen the enemy and it is SQUIRREL.

I read that the Russians a long time ago tried to train dogs to run explosives underneath enemy tanks, but ran into a bunch of problems.

The first iteration, the dogs were basically trained as suicide bombers: run underneath the tank and wait for the explosives to blow. Problem was, they trained the dogs using (naturally enough) Russian tanks, so when the dogs were released on an actual battlefield, guess which tanks they ran to?

By their second try, they had decided that dogs took too much time and effort to train to only be getting one use out of them, so they instead taught the dogs to run under the tank, drop a backpack of explosives then run back to the trench. Only this time, the dogs proved to be a tad too smart: They would get out of the trench, take one look at the battlefield, and nope back into the trench.

After that the idea was apparently dropped for good…

You were saying, Red?

That’s a great expression in panel two.

So much for that idea!

NO, Medic Rover! You don’t create your own casualties! (There will be plenty even without your help.)

It doesn’t look like everybody’s on the same page here…

Good for the dogs – love and hugs for dearest Red and Rover

Good one, I actually giggled…..even before coffee.

Brings me back to my childhood in the early 60’s , Thank you.

A nice and appropriate emotional relief after the weight of the past two days.

Ruh-roh!

Good thing that was a dud.

I am ever so glad that dogs are never sent into military battles. (Dogfights are not the same.)

He was cone but came back.

It’s in his genes. Don’t throw anything you don’t want back.

on the fun side, my gal-dog loves getting pine-cones for me to toss. She would so grab the pine-cone grenade and bring it back.

Forgot to pull the pin?