SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Daniel Williams, 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, gives a dog some water while her puppies are being retrieved from a fox hole on the flight line at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. The dogs and her puppies were found during routine Foreign Object Debris walk on the flight line. Sergeant Williams is deployed from the 185th Air Refueling Wing, a guard unit, in Sioux City, Iowa, and is originally from Beresford, S.D. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Courtney Richardson)

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Routine FOD walk recovers puppies

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Personnel from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing dig out an existing fox hole on the flight line to pull out puppies at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. After the confirmation that the puppies were in the hole, the fire department, flight safety and entomologist responded. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Courtney Richardson)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Mike Peters, 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, hands off a puppy that was in a fox hole on the flight line at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. A total of one mother and seven puppies were extracted out of the hole. Sergeant Peters is deployed from the 185th Air Refueling Wing, a guard unit in Sioux City, Iowa, and is originally from Sioux City, Iowa. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Courtney Richardson)

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Routine FOD walk recovers puppies

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Benjamin Hayes, 386th Air Expeditionary Wing broadcaster, looks on with flight safety, as an entomologist digs out a fox hole on the flight line to retrieve puppies that were discovered during a Foreign Object Debris walk at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. On this base there are several endangered species or native species and the entomologists are only allowed to remove and relocate them. Airman Hayes is deployed from Dyess AFB, Texas and is originally from Easley, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Courtney Richardson)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Michael Barros, 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron entomologist, checks on the puppies that were recovered from a fox hole on a flight line at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. The dogs were removed because leaving them on the flight line can cause an issue with aircraft safety out on the runways. Sergeant Barros is deployed from 110th Fighter Wing, Michigan Air National Guard, Battle Creek, Mich. and is originally from Haslett, Mich. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Courtney Richardson)

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Routine FOD walk uncovers puppies

Published March 6, 2009

Routine FOD walk recovers puppies

Routine FOD walk recovers puppies