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Retired Lieutenant Colonel O'Hair inserts a weather measurement device as Technical Sergeant Brian Higgins, a drop sonde operator, provides instruction. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane four decades ago. AIRMAN Magazine-December 1984

First LT. Jill James, a WC-130 Hercules aircraft pilot from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters", assist retired LT. COL. Ralph O'Hair with his life preserver. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane forty years ago

USAF Captain Brian K. LeTourneau, Commander and pilot and First Lieutenant Scott J. Spitzer sit at the controls of their WC-130 Hercules aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, (Hurricane Hunters) Keesler AFB, Mississippi while flying a weather reconnaissance mission inside the eye of Hurricane Opal. From AIRMAN Magazine December 1995 article "Hunting Season"

COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, sits in a 1ST Helicopter Squadron UH-1N Iroquois helicopter as he is transported from the crash site of his Grumman AA-1B aircraft near Andrews Air Force Base. Harvey was piloting the plane at the time of the accident and sustained minor injuries

US Army (USA) Major General (MGEN) William Caldwell, Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division (AD) and Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Wolf Amacker, of the 82nd AD, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC), get an aerial view of New Orleans from a helicopter in order to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina

COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, retrieves his belongings as he prepares to leave the crash site of his Grumman AA-1B aircraft near Andrews Air Force Base. Harvey who was piloting the plane and sustained minor injuries, is being accompanied by members of the 1ST Helicopter Squadron

Retired US Air Force SENIOR MASTER Sergeant Tom Scott sees first hand just how powerful Hurricane Opal was, as he surveys the damage to a boat he takes care of, at the storm-battered marina located at Eglin AFB, Florida. From the cover of AIRMAN Magazine December 1995 issue

US Air Force MASTER Sergeant Robert Perry and Technical Sergeant Tony Hlavac (seated) assigned to the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler AFB, Mississippi monitor data from a parachuting weather sensor from inside a USAF WC-130 Hercules aircraft while flying inside the eye of Hurricane Opal. From AIRMAN Magazine December 1995 article "Hunting Season"

The wing of a Grumman AA-1B aircraft, owned by COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, lies in the undergrowth following a crash near Andrews Air Force Base. Harvey was piloting the plane when the accident occurred and sustained minor injuries

Major Chuck Colman, right, WC-130 Hercules aircraft commander, offers retired Lieutenant Colonel O'Hair a co-pilot's view of hurricane hunting in the 1980s. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane four decades ago. AIRMAN Magazine-December 1984

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Pilot MAJ Bob Aboe and co-pilot 1LT John Burda of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prepare for a flight in an EC-135C Stratolifter advanced airborne command post aircraft (AABNCP).

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), 1ST Combat Engineers Battalion (CEB), stand in line to get their hair cut at Camp Matilda during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Kent Laughbaum (foreground left), Commander, 494th Fighter Squadron, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), answers questions from members of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Look East Television Network, concerning the arrival of the Wings newly acquired F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft. The new Strike Eagle aircraft were flown from the manufacture by 494th Fighter Squadron (FS) aircrews and will be assigned to the unit

US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Robert Baxter (left), USAF Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Phil Poulson, and USAF Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Steve Friedricks all assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing (AW), California (CA) Air National Guard (ANG), pose for a photograph in from of the Wings new C-130J Hercules, Tactical Transport Aircraft, at its new home at Channel Island Air National Guard Station (ANGS), California (CA)

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. Jason Arnott, crew chief and STAFF SGT. Eric Shaw, flight engineer, 55th Rescue Squadron, on an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter, spot for the pilot and co-pilot as they prepare to land on the U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Henry J. Kaiser class fleet USNS RAPPAHANNOCK replenishment oiler (T-A) 204) in the Pacific Ocean, on Sept. 15, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Lanie McNeal) (RELEASED)

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