Jonathan Howard

And I was like, all right.

So I literally went out there to where our HLZ was, and I made that video pretty angrily.

And I was disgusted with what I was seeing.

I was mad that they weren't giving us support.

They're pretending like everyone there is getting support.

But then when the 11-day baby premature video comes out of us rescuing it, they're like, look at us.

We're doing everything we can.

Now they're trying to pretend like they're helping and like, oh, it was the National Guard that did this.

And I was just like...

y'all have time to post on social media about what we're doing.

But like literally if it wasn't for that civilian with his helicopter, that baby was dead.

That old lady was dead.

And that's when I made that video.

And I was like, you know what?

Whatever's going to happen to me is going to happen to me.

Like, you know, you guys want to kick me out of North Carolina, whatever.

I even thought like I was going to get a lot of backlash on that from my leadership, but they were just like, I mean, that was like, that needed to happen because we just weren't getting the support that we needed.

And I can't tell you how much, when I made that video that day and posted it,

From the very next day, I think I probably had access to about 15 helicopters.

We had Congress people reaching out to us, like texting us at 1230 at night.