Video: Flyboy Scrapes Birds After Jet Collisions

"Flying an F-15E Eagle fighter may be the sexiest job the military has to offer.  The least sexy may be bagging up the beaks, talons and feathers smeared on the jet’s exterior when an Eagle hits a sparrow at 500 miles per hour," the Wall Street Journal reports. 

Lt. Col. Del Johnson does both. His day job is firing up the afterburners and flying combat missions out of Bagram, the main U.S. air base in Afghanistan. But as flight safety officer, his duties also include making sure that every time war bird and regular bird collide, the latter is scraped off the former and shipped to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.