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I really don't want to make this video, but it is literally a matter of life and death for the people of North Carolina. So, my name is Jonathan Howard. I'm a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit.
I'm also up here with Aerial Recovery, a non-profit. I came up here on Sunday with Aerial Recovery before we even got activated. We flew up here and then we got activated, which was great.
I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don't have a ing clue and they're lying.
I'll say this now. I'll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.
If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.
I really don't want to make this video, but it is literally a matter of life and death for the people of North Carolina. So, my name is Jonathan Howard. I'm a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit.
I'm also up here with Aerial Recovery, a non-profit. I came up here on Sunday with Aerial Recovery before we even got activated. We flew up here and then we got activated, which was great.
I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don't have a ing clue and they're lying.
I'll say this now. I'll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.
If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.
Like we'll get a lot of work done with that, but there's no, there's no military. There's no, no one's doing nothing. I just, it blows my mind.
And they're not even allowing people to see what's really going on. One of our friends yesterday, they were actually escorting CNN down to Lake Lure and they wouldn't even let CNN, the sheriff department would not let them go videotape the bad areas of how destructive it is. I don't know why they don't want to show you all that, but I mean, it is bad.
I should also say when I flew here on Sunday, they actually stopped us from going in the sheriff department. And it was because of a bunch of politics that they were claiming was a speaker of the house of North Carolina that was preventing us from even going in and trying to kick us out, which I have clarified today with North Carolina politicians that reached out to me good on them. And they were like, that's complete.
Speaker of the house has nothing. He wants you guys there, but this is a kind of political BS that is happening here right now. Like everyone's trying to be in charge without taking any type of action.
Nobody wants to coordinate with anybody. Everybody wants to pretend like they're being the hero while these people are literally ing dying in the mountains. And these people, I'm saying these people are limited medication.
They're running out of oxygen and there's no one going to get them. The most effective way I have found to go find these people is by getting in a helicopter and flying down the rivers and roads and looking for SOS messages or people waving us down. And then we dropped down and get them.
We have all these people here. We have law enforcement. We have state guard, national guard.
They have no way to go get these people. Yesterday when I was at the Asheville airport, refueling, which by the way, the civilian is paying all this out of his own pocket. He's not even looking for a reimbursement.
I think we did four refuelings yesterday and that was like just in half a day's work. We're in Asheville. And I saw two air force helicopter sixties and I knew there were PJs just looking at them.
And I went up to him like, Hey guys, like what are y'all doing? And like, this is what you need to be doing. This, this, this, this is how I'm finding people. And they're like, we can't go.
We're waiting on title 10 orders. And I'm like, what? They just, they can't get any afforded. There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground and they can't do nothing.
Even my JSOC boys in Fayetteville, they can't get orders to come out here. It is just the most disgusting thing. And they're killing these people.
And I don't know why they're doing it. I don't know what kind of conspiracy I've heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to ing die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the ing world right now.
But if they could just get us helicopters, we could fly out there and rescue these people. So I hope this video goes viral. I hope these politicians get fired.
I hope people get pissed off. They'll probably kick me out of the state of North Carolina for doing this, but you know what? I don't care. Cause if I can save one more life for it, it's ing worth it to me.
