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Buster was an English Springer Spaniel military detection dog that was active during the Iraq War. Because of his actions in discovering a hidden weapons cache, the dog was credited with saving service 1000s of lives from insurgents operating in the southern Iraqi town of Safwan. The spaniel found a concealed cache of weapons which were hidden in a wall cavity, covered with a sheet of tin and then had a wardrobe pushing in front of it. Items in the cache included an AK-47, grenades and bomb making equipment. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, referred to as being the animals' Victoria Cross.