Ok here’s the story I was told by a co-worker yesterday. Story starts with the my co-worker coming into our break room asking if anyone had an “extra” 105mm type brass shell case. I work on Hurlbert Field, a USAF AFSOC base. We work on C-130’s, mostly gunships, talon 2’s, and the new “J” models. Over 90% of my co-workers are former or retired USAF that worked in AFSOC during thier career, so lots of them have shell casings form back in the day while on active duty. I asked him why he needed an shell casing and he starts to tell me that on Monday of this week, he was called over to a church members house locally (Okaloosa Co.) to look at so something. It was the wife and she wanted to know if the shell her husband brought home from work was dangerous. Co-worker being retired Air Force recognizes it as a ‘live’ artillery round. He called the Sheriff’s Department who sent a deputy to investigate, and onece he arrived, took a pic and called Eglin’s’s EOD section. It took them a while to respond, the area was cleared and the suspect round was x-rayed with inconclusive results....but they removed the round to dispose of it on base. Apparently the round was found after some backhoe work somewhere in Defuniak Springs area within the last year. The friend was upset that he didn’t have anything to show for his ‘artilery round’, hence my co-worker was/is looking for a shell casing to give the church member. Wow....