TS Lee

Staff Sgt. Larry Banks, a weather reconnaissance loadmaster with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, looks around the side of the computer to ensure everything is ready to go before penetrating Tropical Storm Lee Sept. 2. Banks collects and records vertical meteorlogical data from a parachute-borne sensor known as a dropsonde. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Valerie Smock)