Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Jenna Daniel, loadmaster, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, starts up the auxiliary power unit on the WC-130J Super Hercules prior to a pre-dawn mission to fly through 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

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Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Jenna Daniel, loadmaster, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, starts up the auxiliary power unit on the WC-130J Super Hercules prior to a pre-dawn mission to fly through 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. ( Air Force photo by Staff Kyle Brasier)

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