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A great shot of the current (far left, as of Jan 2009) and 4 former 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" squadron commanders.		The Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer briefs local government officials on the role of the Hurricane Hunters during our annual Caribbean Hurricane Awareness Tour.		The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm.			Weather officers pour over the data as the plane flies through a storm.
The pilot turns the plane left toward the center of the storm.		The weather loadmaster puts an AXBT into the launch tube before deploying it ahead of an approaching typhoon in the Pacific.		The navigator plots the next leg of an alpha pattern as the plane makes it's storm penetration.			Preparing for a movie project, actor John Cussack flew with a Hurricane Hunter crew into a hurricane. Here he poses with the flight crew and a Discovery Channel camera crew after the mission.