Worker finds military rocket on Tenn. golf course

[June 10, 2008]  JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) -- A man working on a bulldozer discovered live military ordnance on a golf course in Jackson. Freddie McGee described the device as an old military-type rocket that looked like something you'd see in a war movie.

The Madison County Sheriff's Department said the rocket was removed from the Hidden Valley Golf Course by a bomb disposal team from Fort Campbell, Ky.

It was taken to a farm where it was destroyed.

The bomb, which McGee said was about 3 feet long and weighed around 20 pounds, was thought to have been built in the late '60s or early '70s.

Authorities are investigating how it got on the golf course.

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Information from: The Jackson Sun, http://www.jacksonsun.com/

[Associated Press; By COREY WILLIAMS]

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