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Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 403rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepare an WC-130J Super Hercules of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron both from Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, for a pre-dawn mission to fly through the eye of Hurricane Irma Sep. 10, 2017. The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters" fly WC-130J Super Hercules though the eye of active hurricanes to collect weather data using aircraft and externally dropped sensors to provide accurate weather data to the National Hurricane Center on approaching hurricanes. The Reserve Citizen Airmen provide 100 percent of the Air Force capability in low-level, real time data collection in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean tropical weather systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Kyle Brasier)
| Date Taken: | 09.10.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 09.12.2017 01:03 |
| Photo ID: | 3757351 |
| VIRIN: | 170910-F-DB956-0020 |
| Resolution: | 4256x2832 |
| Size: | 7.48 MB |
| Location: | KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MS, US |
| Web Views: | 17 |
| Downloads: | 12 |
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