KOREA
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Skyler Combs

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Skyler Combs ()

Tech. Sgt. KC Ratekin, 51st Comptroller Squadron financial analysis supervisor, contacts his unit control center about a piece of simulated unexploded ordnance that was discovered outside of a building during a base-wide training event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 18, 2022. UXOs are treated with extreme caution, requiring a safe perimeter to be established and explosive ordnance disposal teams to neutralize them.

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