director guthrie, thank you, again, for your tremendous work and the work of your team to protect our florida citizens our thoughts and prayers go out to the affected those being affected already. as i mentioned already yesterday the florida starring in is fully mobilized with 5500 soldiers and airmen ready to support we expect we will be engaged in a multitude of missions including search and rescue, damage assessment, and route clearance. in addition we continue to man state logistics response center and many other logistic and staging areas throughout the state of florida. as well as support the 26 county emergency management operation centers the florida national guard currently has on hand 2400 vehicles available, including high mobility and high water
governor, for your leadership and support of your florida national guard and mr. guthrie, thank you for protecting citizens. we are assessing damage and our thoughts and prayers are with the impact of the storm on folks. florida national guard is fully mobilized with 5500 supporting the efforts post landfall. guard elements have been providing support to state and local partners with reconnaissance, search and rescue, damage assessment. 53rd combat team is engaged in florida coastal counties, conducting ground search and rescue and route clearance. florida guardsmen are in hearnando and taylor county and
and the work of your team to protect our florida citizens. our thoughts and prayers go out to those in the affected areas of the storm, those being affected already. as i mentioned yesterday the florida national guard is fully mobilized with over 5500 soldiers and airmen ready to support hurricane response efforts. we expect that throughout the day we will be actively engaged in a multitude of missions including search and rescue, damage assessment and route clearance. in addition we continue to man the state logistics response center and many other staging areas throughout the state of florida. as well as support the 26 county emergency management operation centers with liaison specialists. the florida national guard currently has on hand 2,400 vehicles available including high-mobility and high-water vehicles. 14 rotary wing aircraft with
atlantic, so the slow movement will mean prolonged effect and potentially deadly one, as well. carley: veteran-led humanitarian group rubicon on the ground in florida. todd: jacob niles deployed about 30 people to the street, jacob, what are your teams doing right now to prepare? we are prestaging two route clearance teams in southern florida and northern florida to wait out the storm and provide route clearance, opening up roads for emergency services and escape routes for people who may have waited too think lo. carley: people are talking about the fact after the storm hits, there will be a lot of power outages and i m sure that is a challenge that could make what you do more difficult in the days to come? very much so.
helicopters, attack helicopters. so the two things that really stand out to me in this announcement, lindsey, one is the f-35s. that is the u.s. military s most advanced fighter aircraft. that sends a real signal to the russians that the u.s. is moving these in. they have a strong surveillance capability into addition to the fact that they are attack aircraft. they have the ability to conduct air strikes. by that, i was very struck by the 32 apaches. these are attack helicopters. they only carry two people, the crew on board. they are frequently used for attacking the ground. so in like a conflict area you would see them often doing route clearance or they would be flying over a military convoy in a dangerous area making sure that no attacks come in and target a u.s. military convoy. they re also they can be used for border, luke they could be