Midshipman Rachel Boushon (left) and Midshipman Casey

Midshipman Rachel Boushon (left) and Midshipman Casey Densmore (right), Annapolis Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, analyze data from a naval water drop sensor dropped through tube on a WC-130J Super Hercules by Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Karen Moore, loadmaster, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, during a mission through the eye of 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.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Corban Lundborg)