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October 12, 2024

National Guard Mobilizes for Helene Relief Efforts

Over 6,300 Guardsmen Assist in Rescue and Recovery Across the Southeast

Following Hurricane Helene, the National Guard has dispatched over 6,300 members from 18 states to assist in rescue and recovery operations across the Southeast. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area, leaving hundreds stranded in severe flooding and extensive damage. In Florida alone, over 3,000 Guardsmen rescued 165 people and 60 animals using helicopter and boat fleets.

From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Legacy of a Titan

Robert (Bob) Anderson Hoover was a fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, and air show superstar. More so, Bob Hoover was an icon of American military and civil aviation, and a man whose achievements in and out of the cockpit stand with those of Wiley Post, Richard Byrd, Chuck Yeager, Albert Scott Crossfield, and John Boyd. Hoover flew Spitfires in the United States Army Air Force during the Second World War. In 1944, he was shot down off the coast of France and held for over a year in a German POW camp. Ill-suited to captivity, Hoover escaped his Nazi captors, eventually stealin