15 JULY 2002

MISHAP LOCATION: NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND
MISHAP WEATHER: 3000 FOOT OVERCAST CONDITIONS 5 MILES VISIBILITY WITH
OCCASIONAL LIGHT RAIN

MISHAP EVENT TOOK PLACE ON SUNDAY 14 JULY 2002 APPROXIMATELY 1415 HOURS
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME.  MISHAP WITNESS (MW) WAS WORKING IN BUILDING 2187
AND DESCRIBED WHAT HE HEARD WAS NUMEROUS RAPID CONCUSSIONS WHICH SHOOK
OFFICE WINDOWS AND WALLS.  WHEN HE LOOK OUTSIDE THE WINDOW HE NOTICED
OBJECTS FALLING FROM THE SKY.  HIS FIRST THOUGHTS WERE COULD THIS BE THE
START OF ANOTHER SEPTEMBER 11?  OBSERVATION OUT OF THE OFFICE WINDOW
REVEALED MISHAP SCENE IN FRONT OF BLDG 2187.

MISHAP SCENE ARRIVAL AND INITIAL INVESTIGATION INDICATED A SQUADRON
LEVEL(12) MK-1, MOD-0 CANADIAN (NORTHERN) GEESE LOCATED IN THE FRONT OF
THE BUILDING AROUND THE WESTERN PORTAL.  MISHAP GEESE (MG) WERE SCATTERED
ON THE GROUND IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS AROUND THE PORTAL.  INITIAL ON SCENE
ARRIVAL INDICATED THAT FOUR MG WERE KILLED UPON IMPACT AND TWO MG WERE
ALIVE BUT IN SERIOUS CONDITION.  FIVE OTHER MG WERE WALKING AROUND THE
PORTAL AND FLED THE SCENE ON FOOT UPON ARRIVAL OF MW.

MW PERFORMED A QUICK POST MISHAP ANALYSIS.  FROM WITNESS MARKS (AND SOME
MG FECAL MATTER) ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, IT APPEARED THAT THE
SQUADRON WAS IN A LOOSE ECHELON V FORMATION.  LEAD MISHAP GOOSE (LMG)
APPEARED TO HAVE LED THE SQUADRON FORMATION INTO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING
AND DUE TO THE SPEED AT IMPACT FIVE OTHER MG IMPACTED AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS
WITHIN ONE SECOND OF THE LMG.  APPARENTLY, REMAINING FIVE MG IN TRAIL V
FORMATION OBSERVED LMG AND THEIR FIVE SQUADRON MEMBERS AT IMPACT AND HAD
ENOUGH TIME TO EXECUTE EVASIVE MANEUVERING TO RECOVER TO AN UNEVENTFUL
LAND BASED RECOVERY IN FRONT OF THE WESTERN PORTAL OF BUILDING 2187.  FOUR
OF THE MG INITIAL SIX MG WERE KILLED UPON IMPACT DUE TO BROKEN NECKS.  TWO
OF THE SIX MG WERE SITTING UPRIGHT BUT APPEARED TO HAVE SUSTAINED SERIOUS
INJURY.

MW WENT BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND CALLED COLLEAGUE AND KNOWN DUCK HUNTER
(DH). MW ASKED DH HOW HIS DUCK HUNTING SEASON WAS GOING AND IF HE NEEDED
SIX OVEN STUFFER ROASTERS FOR THE FREEZER AFTER DESCRIBING THE MISHAP.  DH
DECLINED AND INDICATED THAT IT WAS NOT DUCK SEASON AND IF MW PUT THEM IN
HIS TRUCK HE WOULD BE LIABLE TO RECEIVE CITATIONS FROM MARYLAND STATE
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.  DH RECOMMENDED THAT MW SHOULD CALL KYLE
RAMBO, NAS PAX DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIRECTOR (DNR-D).  DNR-D
ADVISED MW THAT THEY WOULD SEND A TEAM OUT TO ASSIST INJURED MG. DNR TEAM
(DNR-T) ARRIVED ON THE SCENE ABOUT 30 MINUTES AFTER MISHAP.  THE TWO
REMAINING MG WHOM HAD SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES HAD DIED ON THE
SCENE. MW AND DNR-T SEARCHED THROUGH THE BUSHES FOR ANY OTHER POSSIBLE MG.

DNR-T FOUND A SURVIVING MG IN THE BUSHES WHOM APPEARED TO BE INJURED BUT
NOT IN A SERIOUS LIFE THREATENING CONDITION.  DNR-T QUICKLY PHOTOGRAPHED
MISHAP SCENE AND CAPTURED INJURED MG AND PLACED IN A PORT-A-CAGE FOR QUICK
TRANSPORT TO NAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER.  HOPEFULLY, DUE TO THE
QUICK RESPONSE OF DNR-T, WILL HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A FULL RECOVERY OF
SEVENTH MG.  DNR-T SAID THIS CALL HAD TO BE ONE OF THE STRANGEST ONE IN
QUITE SOME TIME.

WEATHER AND SKY WAS A "GRAY DAY" AS IS THE COLOR OF BLDG 2187.  MISHAP
INVESTIGATION TEAM SURMISED THAT LMG HAD OBSERVED A REFLECTION OF TREELINE
AND SKY IN THE LARGE DARK WINDOWS AND ASSUMED FLIGHT PATH AHEAD WAS CLEAR
ABOVE THE TREELINE.  SKY REFLECTION IN THE WINDOW MATCHED CLOSELY WITH
BUILDING COLOR WHICH MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO COGNITIVE FAILURE OF LMG.

A SMALL RUN OFF POND IS LOCATED IN FRONT OF BLDG 2187 (ABOUT 150 YARDS)
AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MISHAP SQUADRON PERFORMED A NORMAL AMPHIBIOUS
TAKEOFF AND ROUTINE CLIMB OUT ON A NORTHERLY HEADING TOWARDS BUILDING 2187
AND MISHAP LOCATION.

ALL REMAINING MK-1, MOD-0 NORTHERN CANADIAN GEESE WILL BE BRIEFED ON
DETAILS OF THE MISHAP AND THIS PARTICULAR ROUTINE HAZARD TO LOW LEVEL
NAVIGATION IN THE NAS PATUXENT RIVER COMPLEX.

IN ORDER TO PREVENT FURTHER MISHAP, RECOMMEND PAINTING BUILDING 2187
BRIGHT PINK, COVERING ALL WINDOWS.  NOTE THAT NAVY SHARES FAULT IN
INCIDENT FOR BUILDING IN THE FLIGHT PATH.

umm... was it supposed to be funny?

now THAT'S funny!.
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>I dont know but having this crap on the side >of his post bugs the hell out of me.
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yeah!!!
what the hell are those things, and why , when someone forwards me crap, are they all over the message?
can you tell, i'm not really a computer guy.?

I guess people who are used to reading military documents find it funny.  

There are you happy,  I took out the arrows

Just goes to show you that if you are ever a goose never put a blind goose as flight leader.

"Damnit Ralph I told you to get some new glasses."
Ben