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The emblem of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters. The squadron is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes." 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.