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To: Tennessee_Bob

Yep, I think all I ever found were some bolts and a couple of condoms, the occasional deceased bird, and a ancient garrison cap.

I heard some stories about other stuff, but the thought of having a dead fish Cusinart through an engine is disgusting.


9 posted on 09/12/2005 5:48:02 PM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: alarm rider

Dead fish - worst we had was an F-16 eating a fat seagull. And then because they had to investigate the incident down on the line before they could release the engine to us, the motor sat, pulled, under a black tarp, on the line, in Nevada, in the summer. We had to steam clean it as we went - and we were doing that in our gas masks.

FOD walks - twice a year, we'd do a big walk, from the edge of the line, across all the taxiways, the runways, and across to the revetments. Weirdest thing found was a small piston and connecting arm, like out of a lawn mower. Dumbest thing was my commander, seeing something black sticking up out of an expansion joint and pulling on it, and pulling up about 25 feet of joint filler.


12 posted on 09/12/2005 5:59:34 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
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