Three minutes until drop

KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss.-Senior Airman Jenna Daniel, loadmaster with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Keesler AFB, Miss. explains to a group of civil air patrollers how the Hurricane Hunters launch a dropsonde . The dropsonde is the tool Hurricane Hunters use to gather weather data when flying through storms. The group of civil air patrollers joined the Hurricane Hunters on a training mission May 20. (U.S. Air Force Photo by 2nd Lt. Joe Simms)