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Kuga: the Belgian Malinois on an Australian special forces patrol

2011-08-26 Uruzgan, Afghanistan / Australia
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Kuga was an Australian SASR Belgian Malinois who was shot multiple times after detecting an ambush in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, and later received the Dickin Medal posthumously.

Uruzgan, Afghanistan / Australia

PDSA Dickin Medal image indicating Kuga’s award; this is not a photograph of Kuga. Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.
PDSA Dickin Medal image indicating Kuga’s award; this is not a photograph of Kuga. Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.

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Kuga detected and engaged an ambush in Uruzgan and was shot multiple times.

The archive records the tactical impact and the bodily cost, with the medal image clearly labelled.

Kuga is archived because military animal memory must include injury, treatment and death, not only honour.

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