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‘We Just Want to Get Back to Work’: NOAA Hurricane Hunter Speaks Out After Trump’s Layoffs
22 Mar 2025 17:44 GMT
Less than a month into the second term of Donald Trump, the president signed an executive order that gave the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency broad powers to gut the federal workforce, in the name of cost-cutting. DOGE—led by the …
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Fired hurricane hunter says Americans could see ‘more damage and more loss of life’ with NOAA layoffs
16 Mar 2025 14:21 GMT
Dr. Andrew Hazelton is one of the nation’s Hurricane Hunters.
He was part of the crews that would fly deep into powerful hurricanes as they churned in the ocean, all to collect data to help forecasters improve predictions on the storm’s power and direction …
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GAO report on hurricane hunter aircraft
15 Mar 2025 00:56 GMT
… Government Accountability Office report on hurricane hunter aircraft recommends the Air Force … requirements are missed, assess their Hurricane Hunter workforces, and establish a mechanism …
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Hurricane Hunter program failing to meet critical mission, GAO finds
14 Mar 2025 23:58 GMT
… has put the nation’s Hurricane Hunter program on life support, according … , whose states are home to hurricane hunter operations.
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Ex-Hurricane Hunter slams DOGE cuts as 'making no sense whatsoever'
08 Mar 2025 01:49 GMT
… and now an ex-NOAA Hurricane Hunter slams the layoffs as “making … group of hurricane researchers, two hurricane hunter flight directors and an engineer … , a meteorologist and former NOAA Hurricane Hunter in the late 1980s. Adding …
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NOAA Layoffs Include Two Hurricane Hunter Flight Directors
07 Mar 2025 01:15 GMT
… Connections. Masters served as a Hurricane Hunter flight director from 1986 to … from a meteorological perspective. Every Hurricane Hunter flight needs a flight director … maintains a fleet of 10 hurricane hunter aircraft, and those have not …
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NOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts
06 Mar 2025 18:08 GMT
… is particularly problematic since every hurricane hunter mission is required to carry … hurricane research
The three NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft are world-class flying … is particularly problematic since every hurricane hunter mission is required to carry …
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Former 'Hurricane Hunter' assumes command of Colorado Springs-based aerial firefighting wing
03 Mar 2025 16:24 GMT
A veteran tactical pilot with more than 30 years of service recently assumed leadership of a Colorado Springs-based aerial firefighting wing, according to a Saturday news release.
Air Force Reserve Col. Elissa Granderson assumed command of the 302nd …
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‘It's not just a job to me': Hurricane hunter among NOAA employees laid off in DOGE cuts
01 Mar 2025 00:59 GMT
… . She is, or was, a hurricane hunter, the crew member who gathers …
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Trump cuts to weather and emergency services could force CT to fend for itself
06 Apr 2025 09:03 GMT
… job eliminations, including in its hurricane hunter group that flies into those …