Do You Have All the Pieces?
Compliments of U.S. Air Force "Flying Safety" Magazine Aircraft maintenance personnel were tasked with troubleshooting a C-5 #3 engine generator…
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FOD walks, flight line prevention, base operations, combat readiness programs, and military maintenance standards.
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Keep Your Fuel Bottles Safe
As part of its continuing effort to improve Foreign Object Damage (FOD) prevention, The FOD Control Corporation has introduced a new safety tool into the military aviation market, the FOD and Fuel Caddy. A durable replacement for locally manufactured flight-line…
Why It Pays To Be Careful Around Running Engines
Compliments of U.S. Air Force "Flying Safety" Magazine The jet was undergoing the final stages of its major periodic inspection. …
Self-Locking Fasteners Can Drive You Nuts!
Compliments of U.S. Air Force "Flying Safety" Magazine You all have seen or heard of "The Right Stuff." How about…
Foreign Objects Can Become FOD
Courtesy of MSgt Steve Ball and USAF Air Combat Command's "The Combat Edge" online newsmagazine. Foreign Objects Can Become FOD…
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If It Were a Snake …
Compliments of U.S. Navy Safety Center ...wait a minute, it is a snake! This photo sent in by one of…
Gitmo FOD
Keeping track of captured enemy combatants isn't the only worry at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Military personnel there treat FOD…
Shedding Some Light on FOD
Compliments of U.S. Navy "Mech" Magazine By Ltjg. Jason Bauman Five minutes to flight quarters and my flashlight doesn’t work.…
The FOD Poems of Master Sergeant Frank Merchant, Whiteman AFB, Missouri.
What is FOD? by Master Sergeant Frank Merchant, Whiteman AFB So what is Foreign Object Damage and what can it…
FOD Walking at Kadena
Over 450 airmen started the New Year by volunteering for the Air Force base's annual FOD Walk, collecting debris from…
Nellis Cleans Up
Nellis Air Force Base undertakes a major effort clean up its flight areas after "one of the most dynamic open…
Misawa Air Base Sweeps Up FOD
With the help of good attitudes and good equipment, Misawa Air Base in Japan is leading the way with the…
Tool Control: Navy Practices
The Spring 2009 issue of the Naval Safety Center's Mech Magazine (pgs. 8, 29 & 31) features several short articles on…
FOD, an Enemy in War
Safety-conscious personnel in the US Air Force's 379th Air Expeditionary Wing discuss the importance of FOD awareness to their critical…
RED HORSE to the Rescue in Iraq
Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers repair deteriorating runway pavement at Kirkuk Regional Air Base. Read More...