In 2008, while deployed at sea, the crew of the USS Harry S. Truman discovered an Eurasian scops owl hiding inside the wheel well of an F/A-18 Hornet. The owl w

In 2008, while deployed at sea, the crew of the USS Harry S. Truman discovered an Eurasian scops owl hiding inside the wheel well of an F/A-18 Hornet. The owl was safely recovered and nicknamed “FOD,” short for “foreign object debris.” The bird had apparently taken shelter inside the wheel well of …