Jonathan Howard

Not yet.

I think I heard they were going to come like three days later or something like that.

But down there, there was no red tape.

And for our unit, the SMU, that was actually our very first mission to be activated on.

And DeSantis and all the floor leadership were like, we don't really know what you guys do as operators.

Just do whatever you do.

And that's what we did.

We have a great commander and former pararescue guy.

And he was like, we're going to go do what others can't do, and we're going to find work and get after it.

So the main mission to get down there was just clearing trees.

I think my team alone, we cleared about 46 miles of road just in about five hour period, just chainsaws, just pushing through to Perry.

And then we basically hit multiple roads, linked up with aerial recovery.

I should say, this was actually the first time me and Charlie actually met in person and worked together.

We knew each other.

We talked on the phone and stuff.

We live in the same area.

We're always trying to link up together, but we're just busy.

So our teams worked together and then we just started pushing in.

Not as bad as what we have seen in North Carolina, just because of our response with the state of Florida and the resources.

No one was trying to take command and control because we had command and control established.