53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
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 Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes . " Aligned under the 403rd Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) and based at Keesler Air Force Base , Mississippi , with ten aircraft , it flies into tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean , the Caribbean Sea , the Gulf of Mexico and the Central Pacific Ocean for the specific purpose of directly measuring weather data in and around those storms . 
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