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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, cleans his shotgun after a day of use at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The BASH program classifies a bird strike as a collision between a bird and an aircraft, but the term is often expanded to cover other wildlife strikes. Other wildlife can include bats and ground animals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, cleans a shotgun at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The BASH program ensures the 51st FW mission readiness and combat capability by providing the safest flying environment possible. The program is designed to reduce risk to aircrews, aircraft, and the surrounding community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, fires a shotgun on the flightline at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The BASH program is in place to reduce catastrophic bird strikes. A bird strike can damage an engine, dent a windshield, or even break other parts of an aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, removes a shotgun from a vault at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The air space above Osan AB has all kinds of missions, including a program that ensures the safety for both humans and wildlife to co-exist. The BASH program is continuously working to mitigate wildlife hazards, such as bird strikes to the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, checks a system of propane noise canons on the flightline at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. Loud distress calls and propane canons are used to keep birds out, making sure the flightline is an unattractive area for wildlife. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, canvasses the grass to ensure birds and other animals are not nesting on the flightline at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. Along with managing birds with loud noise, the flightline grass is also kept at a specific uniform height between 7 to 14 inches. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, cleans his shotgun after a day of use at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The BASH program classifies a bird strike as a collision between a bird and an aircraft, but the term is often expanded to cover other wildlife strikes. Other wildlife can include bats and ground animals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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BASH keeps Osan's flightline safe

Kolton Rottinghaus, 51st Fighter Wing Safety Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard manager, cleans a shotgun at Osan Air Base, Jan. 14, 2021. The BASH program ensures the 51st FW mission readiness and combat capability by providing the safest flying environment possible. The program is designed to reduce risk to aircrews, aircraft, and the surrounding community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Branden Rae)

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Staff Sgt. Robert Moreno, an air traffic controller with the 80th Operations Support Squadron, poses in front of the Air Operations Complex at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas Jan. 8, 2021. Moreno was named Air Education and Training Command's Air Traffic Controller of the Year in 2020 for his efforts to support the pilot training mission here as well as training ATC students. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. John Conger)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

A two-year-old bald eagle opens its beak in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. According to Eagles.org, bald eagles on average weigh between six and 14 pounds and fly at speeds in excess of 75 miles per hour when diving. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

A net based trap activates, capturing a bald eagle in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. Joint Base Langley-Eustis partnered with the United States Department of Agriculture, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, the Air Force Safety Center and the non-profit Conservation Science Global to humanely move the bald eagles out of harm’s way of the flight line. (Courtesy Photo)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

U.S. Air Force Capt. Will Boss, center, Air Force Safety Center wildlife ecologist, holds a two-year-old bald eagle while Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologist, places a hood over its head in Hampton, Va., Jan. 13, 2021. The hood makes the eagle more docile without harming it. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resource biologist, secures a tag to a two-year-old bald eagle’s legs in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. The silver tag belongs to the United States Geological Survey, the red tag belongs to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resource biologist, measures the beak of a 2 year old bald eagle in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. Measurements of the beak, wingspan, and talons were taken to ensure proper growth and health of the bird. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Alicia Garcia, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, writes measurements on an eagle banding data sheet in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. Measurements of the beak, wingspan, and talons were taken to ensure proper growth and health of the bird. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologist, measures the wingspan of two-year-old bald eagle while held by U.S. Air Force Capt. Will Boss, center, Air Force Safety Center wildlife ecologist, in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. Measurements of the beak, wingspan, and talons were taken to ensure proper growth and health of the bird. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Alicia Garcia, left, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, writes measurements down on an eagle banding data sheet while U.S. Air Force Capt. Will Boss, center, Air Force Safety Center wildlife ecologist, and Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologist, weigh a 2 year old bald eagle in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. The eagle weighed eight pounds, four ounces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Jeff Cooper, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologist, secures a tracking beacon to a two-year-old bald eagle in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. This eagle was released in order to follow its movements around the Joint Base Langley-Eustis community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Jeff Cooper, left, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources biologist, secures a tracking beacon to a two-year-old bald eagle while U.S. Air Force Capt. Will Boss, center, Air Force Safety Center wildlife ecologist, and Alicia Garcia, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, assist in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is providing support to Joint Base Langley Eustis at no cost to the installation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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Protecting our nation’s sacred symbol

Alicia Garcia, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, holds a two-year-old bald eagle in Hampton, Virginia, Jan. 13, 2021. The eagle trapping project, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resource, the Air Force Safety Center, and the nonprofit Conservation Science Global, aims to humanely relocate the bald eagles away from the Joint Base Langley-Eustis flight line. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)

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