Jonathan Howard
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The only time I'd ever even get service was just when we're up in the air for a little bit for a few minutes here and there, and then we're back on the ground.
I mean, literally we hit the ground, we refuel, we grab a mission and we just go.
And then we would do that basically from about,
We usually couldn't get started till about 9.30 because of fog.
So, you know, about 9.30 we would go and then we usually had to stop about 6.30.
So it would just be go, go, go that entire time.
And we would just grab food when we could, grab food and fuel where we could and just make it happen.
A lot of medicine.
Starlink.
Starlink started at the end of the week.
Yeah, mainly, so it started basically with like personnel recovery the first couple of days.
And then it seemed probably around maybe Thursday, the personnel recovery kind of slowed down.
Everyone like basically got out that needed to get out.
And then it went more to like insulin, medical supplies, EpiPens.
And then once we got a pretty good hold of that, it kind of went more to like Starlinks.
Like that way they could just message us and be like, we have an emergency.
You know, this person needs this.
Even the firefighters, we did a lot of firefighter drops.
So we would actually, in a civilian helicopter, be picking up search and rescue crews, mainly firefighters, and flying them to their locations because they couldn't get any kind of helicopter support.
So we would be doing that.