U.S. airmen aboard the aircraft carrier USS Truman discovered a screech owl in the left-main wheel well of an F/A 18 Hornet during a pre-flight inspection, March 17, 2008. Nicknamed "Fod," short for foreign object debris, the bird was nursed back to health by an airmen who is a licensed U.S. falconer, then transported to land and safely released. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Matthew Bookwalter

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KirbyMST3K: ... I like it, but why is teh Air force hanging out with the squids? FOD... very imaginative... considering we have signs all ver the Flight Line reminding us of the dangers of it... 1 May 25, 2008 thesarge: ... KirbyMST3K Why? To be a positive role model for the squids? 2 May 25, 2008 Bull: ... KirbyMST3K they're both useless branches when compared to the Army and Marines (even though the Marines aren't really a branch)........ 3 May 25, 2008 code_dude1: ... Bull, Next time you need close up air/ground support rmember what you just said. 4 May 25, 2008 Bull: ... relax code-dude1 5 May 26, 2008 GWRekab: ... I would have joined the the Army or Marines but I spelled my name correctly. 6 May 28, 2008 thesarge: ... GWRekab due to your tutor, a US ARMY veteran no doubt ! 7 May 29, 2008 Bull: ... that was pretty funny GWRekab 8 May 30, 2008 GWRekab: the sarge from your response you must not have spelled your name correctly 9 June 10, 2008

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