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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Tech. Sgt. David Young, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing noncommissioned officer in charge of flight safety, takes aim at a group of gulls to reduce the number of birds at Balad AB, where aircraft take off and land 24/7. Collisions between flying birds and aircraft can severely damage aircraft and endanger the lives of pilots. To reduce the number of collisions, the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Safety Office personnel depredate the birds on the base. On May 3, the remains of whole, depredated birds were shipped from the base to the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Feather Identification Laboratory in Washington, D.C., to be analyzed by scientists there. This marks the first shipment of whole bird remains to be sent from Iraq to the Smithsonian. Sergeant Young is deployed from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)
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