FOD Walk

by SSgt Nathanael Callon

FOD Walk

SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Airmen assigned to the 52nd Maintenance Group perform a foreign objects and debris inspection of a taxi-way in preparation for the take-off of 480th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcons in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn. Joint Task Force (JTF) Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international response to the unrest in Libya and enforcement of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973. UNSCR 1973 authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilians in Libya under threat of attack by Qadhafi regime forces. JTF Odyssey Dawn was commanded by U.S. Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, III. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nathanael Callon)

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There was a hurried rush about the flight line as the maintenance group burned the midnight oil.  Each Airman worked furiously to prepare the F-16 Fighting Falcons for take-off.  Spangdahlem Air Base launched some of the first NATO aircraft in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn.  There are only a few instances in an Airman's career that become as large as liberating a country from dictatorship and each Airman on that flight line knew that they were part of something big, something that doesn't happen often.