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Alligator enters an U S Air Force Base in Florida.

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 28 Apr 24

It is very odd for a 10 foot alligator to wander on the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida and find a place to rest under the wheels of an airplane that caused the officials of the base to call officials with the...

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Reminiscing...That Barrier And Top Gun!

Catherine @bluesa (15022) • Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May 17

I woke up today remembering a few years, moments and people that brought a smile to my face. It was such a different time. I was 12 years old heading for 13 and we were close to an air force base. I used to wake up nearly every...

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One Chapter of 'My life on the A train'

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 29 Jan 09

Just os you can read what I am working on... Remember this is part of the book not the book. I know a lot on here wonder where my frustration and anger comes from for our current situation in America. This is part of my book,...

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Hello out there my fellow MyLotters who wonder what I have been up to...

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 29 Jan 09

I know a lot on here wonder where my frustration and anger comes from for our current situation in America. This is part of my book, My life on the A train. It is an autobiography of my life and where I have been. However this...

Sonic Booms from the jets...do you have them in your area?

moondancer @moondancer (7431) • United States 20 Jan 09

We have these huge sonic booms they come in pairs from the jets located at a near by air force base. This booms not only scare the bageezes out of my babies even my biggest one, my rotti. The little one my youngest baby comes...

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Foot In Mouth Syndrome

sconibear @sconibear (8016) • United States 13 Jan 09

a friend of mine just sent me this email.......pretty cool [i] True Story.... Luke AFB is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being surrounded by civilization that complains about the noise from the base and its...

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Do you remember where you were September 11, 2001?

SwtJenlove @SwtJenlove (1090) • United States 11 Sep 08

September 11th 2001 I was at home with my now 8 year old son. We were watching television when the first tower was hit they showed it on the news.. not long after the other tower was hit and thats when we knew it was a...

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McCain's statement about not taking earmarks doesn't fly

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 9 Sep 08

I was listening to Grampa Simpson make a statement that any congressman that has been in office for 20+ years would never make. He stated that he has never accepted an earmark, nor has he ever requested one (he must have had a...

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NASA Technology Helps Fight California Wildfires!!!

andak2007 @andak2007 (3229) • Philippines 2 Sep 08

NASA Technology Helps Fight California Wildfires Fires near Big Sur, Calif. Fires near Big Sur, Calif. Satellite image combines natural-color landscape portrayal with thermal infrared data. Active burning areas are shown...

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Are you preparing for Gustav coming to land?

Barb42 @Barb42 (4214) • United States 28 Aug 08

The storm Gustav is quickly becoming a hurricane again from what the news is saying. Homeland Security Secretary Chernoff just spoke from Andrews Air Force base. He is on his way to New Orleans now. The Louisiana governor has...

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Listening to the Blue Angels fly over the phone with my daughter

spalladino @spalladino (17891) • United States 17 May 08

I used to live near an Air Force base and every year they would hold an open house to celebrate Armed Forces Day. I would take my kids every year to see the jets, helicopters and other military equipment up close but the highlight...

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Do you know someone who was an innocent victim?

gantwick @gantwick (849) • United States 19 Apr 08

I was feeling kinda bummed and lethargic this morning. I finally realized that this marks the anniversary of Tim McVeigh's terrorist attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City. My mom and my sister were working just blocks...

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Holy Flashlight!

cortjo73 @cortjo73 (6498) • United States 10 Apr 08

That is about all I can say! Did anyone else watch the episode with the haunted air force base in Ohio this week? That was a great episode. Other than an actual video capture of an apparition...what more could you ask for? So...

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Bush Speaks Locally

worldwise1 @worldwise1 (14885) • United States 27 Mar 08

I have just been sitting her working on myLot while President Bush, who is speaking from Wright Patterson Air Force Base near here, drones on about the war in Ira in the background. The rhetoric is the SOS if you ask me. He is...

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I need some help here...

peedielyn @peedielyn (1207) • United States 10 Feb 08

I posted a question when I first started mylot. It had something to do with me finding a missing person. Let me clarify and maybe someone can help me. My dad has never met his father. My dad was conceived around March of 1959,...

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US Military Misplaced 5 Nukes In America

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 5 Sep 07

The Air Force lost track of five nuclear warheads for three and a half hours in America's sky. They wound up aboard a plane traveling from Minot Air Force Base, ND., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. They were inside...

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Strange happenings, ghost, guide, hacker?

Amy @artemis432 (7474) • Abernathy, Texas 25 Aug 07

I went to sleep last night with a migraine. The last thing I looked at on the web was mylot. I woke up this morning and turned on the monitor and up pops a webpage without me clicking on anything. Its a page for merriamwebster...

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Believe it or Not!!! Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers

whiteheather39 @whiteheather39 (24403) • United States 17 Aug 07

I saw this on the news last night and could not believe it. I worked in the military Procurement Department and an expenditure such a this would have set off big red flags. I wonder if some of the higher military officials did not...

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Have you seen the Nasa flight take off.

dharma150cc @dharma150cc (539) • India 5 Jul 07

The Space Shettle Atlantic takes off its modified Boeing 747 carried aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base.

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My friend Mojave

raydene @raydene (9871) • United States 8 Jun 07

30+ years ago I was living outside Lancaster,California deep in the desert.I had a 9 mile drive to get to Lancaster and would often see wildlife dead in the road. One day while heading into town I saw an injured desert tortoise...

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