[brityank]

Hooters on a bird farm! What they won't do for morale!

(swiped from gp)

[robomatik]

cute little bugger! maybe they can train him/her to scratch the eyeballs out of some jihadis. ;)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I wonder what the sailor superstition is surrounding owls.

Probably the guardian angels of CPOs or something.

[brityank]

Watched "Carrier" on PBS over the weekend; what a whiney bunch of BS. Still, there was about 40 minutes of interesting stuff sprinkled through the ten hours!

This one reminded me of the pelican we 'caught' up on the forward main FC director between Hawaii and Guam. Like this owl, seems he was just tired, and hitched a ride for a while. He (?) flew off sometime that night, but left us something as payment.

[6SJ7]

The owl was discovered in the left-main wheel well of an F/A 18 Hornet during a pre-flight inspection of the aircraft.

Hope the enviro-nuts don't declare all F/A 18's an endangered species habitat.

[B-Chan]

[Stoat]

Navy NewsStand - Eye on the Fleet

Description:   Airman Jacob Larsen holds "Fod," a screech owl that was found on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

 

"Since he was in a weak condition, flying to land would decrease his chances of survival so we thought we would give him a hand," said Gorman.

Preparations were made to fly the owl off the ship on a Carrier Onboard Delivery to land, where he was released safely and out of harms way.

"It was a free ride. They were going there anyway so we made it a little bit easier on him," said Gorman.

Too bad he wasn't allowed to stay onboard long enough to warrant an honorary sailor's or Airman's rank  :-)

Officers' tribute to hero cat (Credited with saving the lives of Royal Navy Officers)

[dighton]

Sweet post, a pleasure to ping along.

[Billthedrill]

USN BTT. Dang pilots get all the glory, even the feathered ones...

[Slings and Arrows]

You’ll like this one.

[Secret Agent Man]

Thank God we have people there who care for and love animals.

[Solitar]

Back in the old days they would have kept that owl as a mascot — helluva lot smarter than a raven.

[magslinger]

SONOBUOY PING!

All flight deck personnel muster on the flight deck for FOD walkdown!

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[A.A. Cunningham]

080317-N-4632D-001 PERSIAN GULF (March 17, 2008) "Fod," a screech owl that was found on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), rests on the cable of a sound powered telephone in the flight deck control center of the carrier. The owl was discovered in the left-main wheel well of an F/A 18 Hornet during a pre-flight inspection of the aircraft. Truman and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 are deployed supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and maritime security operations. Official U.S. Navy photo by Aviation Boatswain's Mate Handling 3rd Class Alex Dieringer (Released)

080317-N-3143M-001 PERSIAN GULF (March 17, 2008) Airman Jacob Larsen holds "Fod," a screech owl that was found on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The owl was discovered in the left-main wheel well of an F/A 18 Hornet during a pre-flight inspection of the aircraft. Truman and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 are deployed supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and maritime security operations. Official U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Damian Martinez (Released)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bump for FOD on a COD.

[magslinger]

A small black bird joined the ships company briefly when I was on the Midway. We were out of visual range of land at the time, so he was kept in Flight Deck Control until we returned to easy bingo range when he was launched.

[TangoLimaSierra]

"The owl could not reside on board indefinitely so they came up with another plan."

[Moose4]

Cute little guy, and he seems surprisingly calm and tame. Glad to hear this little feathered story had a happy ending.

}:-)4

[Bean Counter]

yah...they’ve had Hooters on the flight deck since the 1980’s...

[SW6906]

Ping!

[shorty_harris]

During WWII, a cruiser operating off the CA coast recovered an exhausted pigeon. It had a tag identifying it as “Property of U.S. Navy”, and that it had come from NAS Moffett Field. Turns out it was a messenger pigeon from a blimp. The bird had gotten lost in bad weather. When the ship got to Alameda, they contacted Moffett Field asking what they should do with it. Moffett replied simply “release it”. It found it’s way back to Moffett.