Even more cool detritus on Fort Benning

Picked a firebreak road that I'd never been down before.  Came around a corner and found this:

At first I thought it was some sort of old construction equipment or tank.  When I walked around to the front, it became obvious what it was.  A giant bomb!  My cap gives it scale.

It was filled with concrete and appeared to be a "daisy cutter."  The large bombs dropped to blast away huge swaths of trees for landing zones.  This one must have been used as a training aid or static display.  Now it's slowly rusting away in a forgotten back corner of the Malone Range Complex.

I drove on and eventually saw this through the trees, down in a swampy area:

Closer examination and it became obvious that this was placed here some time ago as a prop for field training exercises.  Some sort of scenario where Soldiers have to locate a downed aircraft and rescue the pilot... or some such thing.

I am going to research this tail number but this is what I know:  It's a Navy Grumman F9F-8T Cougar advanced jet trainer.  This is the last aircraft fighter pilots train in before getting a specific fighter type assigned.  Student sits up front.  Instructor sits in the rear seat.  I know it's a trainer because of the color scheme.  You see scads of these in the air over Pensacola Naval Air Station.