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    The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only...
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    movement. The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, the world's only operational military weather reconnaissance unit, is based at Keesler...
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    WC-130J Weatherbird is the current weather data collection platform for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Only one WC-130 has been lost during...
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    composite unit. It has an airlift squadron (the 815th Airlift Squadron), and the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, a WC-130 unit known as the "Hurricane...
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    hurricane weather reconnaissance in support of the Department of Commerce. 403rd Operations Support Squadron 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane...
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  • "53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 'Hurricane Hunters'". 403rd Wing. Retrieved 22 August 2022. Haulman, Daniel L. (12 January 2001). "53 Weather Reconnaissance...
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    with WC-130 flights from the Air Force Reserve Command's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (53 WRS) at six-hour intervals. Most often, the scientists...
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    WC-130 aircraft operated by the United States Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. As of 2014, the two Orions had each flown more than 10,000...
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    Nicole Mitchell (meteorologist) (category American television weather presenters)
    and assigned to the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, as an aerial reconnaissance weather officer. Mitchell is...
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    bombers and other fighters, reconnaissance, and patrol. The F-16 is currently used by the USAF Air Demonstration squadron, the Thunderbirds, while a small...
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    2011-02-15. 403rd Wing (2011). "The Hurricane Hunters". 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2006-03-30...
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  • WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron tried to locate El Faro without success. On October 2, a...
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    May 25, 2008. 403rd Wing (2011). "The Hurricane Hunters". 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved March...
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    Squadron, 15 April 1955 – 1 January 1959 redesignated: 3913th Combat Support Group, 1 January – 1 September 1959 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron...
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    October 1951 – 16 June 1952) 51st Reconnaissance, Weather (later, 51st Strategic Reconnaissance, Photographic) Squadron: 1 August 1947 – 27 June 1949; 10...
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    United States Air Force Reserves Hurricane Hunters of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, have...
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    Dobbins Air Reserve Base once again. In September 2005, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hurricane Hunter aircraft flew out of Dobbins JARB after...
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    the squadron received significant amounts of intelligence operating an RB-57F Canberra from Yokota, detached from the MAC 9th Weather Reconnaissance Wing...
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    Weather, a 1994 novel Storm Chasers, a 2007–2011 reality TV series Wikimedia Commons has media related to Storm chasing. 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron...
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    Operations Squadron is a network warfare unit located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The squadron was established as the 70th Reconnaissance Squadron during...
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    12 squadrons, and three flights. 403rd Operations Group 403rd Operations Support Squadron 815th Airlift Squadron 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 36th...
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    Air Force Base, Nevada since 2009. The squadron conducts strike, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, operating the General Atomics...
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    these areas. Only participating weather reconnaissance/research aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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    WC-130 aircraft from the United States Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron discovered that Michael had been quickly intensifying as...
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    1969. Four years later, the squadron was activated in the reserves. It has performed airlift and weather reconnaissance missions from Keesler Support...
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    the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron with a mission to conduct strategic reconnaissance operations over the Arctic. The squadron's reconnaissance missions...
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    2011-02-15. 403rd Wing (2011). "The Hurricane Hunters". 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2006-03-30...
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    mid-December 1970 the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing inactivated. One reconnaissance squadron, the 553rd Reconnaissance Squadron, was reassigned to the 388th...
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    used during the Berlin Airlift. On 7 November 1953 the USAF 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron began operating from the base flying initially the WB-29...
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    2011-02-15. 403rd Wing (2011). "The Hurricane Hunters". 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Retrieved 2006-03-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names:...
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