The sounds of these guys (and what I thought were KC-135 medevacs but may have actually been C-9s) on the runway across the street and golf course from my house on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. sang me to sleep at night:

The Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters are currently deployed to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands where they are flying state-of-the-art WC-130J aircraft into Hurricane Dean in support of the National Hurricane Center.