Air Force Senior Airman Monika Neal, 18th Operations Support Squadron airfield management operations coordinator, shoots a pyrotechnic round at a flock of birds to scare them off the runway Nov. 16, 2016, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Birds and other wildlife can be sucked into the engines of aircraft and cause severe damage.

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