Prior to Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm that is expected to make land in Florida on Wednesday, U.S. military bases in Florida began evacuating personnel and plane on Monday.
The National Hurricane Center issued a warning about the wind on Monday, stating that” Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane indicate that Milton has strengthened to a Category 5 storms.” The maximum sustained winds are estimated to be 160 mph ( 250 km/h ) with higher gusts”.
On Monday, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s hit director, told investigators that the Defense Department is preparing for” all possible circumstances” ahead of Hurricane Milton’s expected land.
Ryder said,” The federal government, to include]the Department of Defense], is leaning very much forward to be ready to respond to Hurricane Milton, you know, to contain thinking through all the possible contingencies, search-and-rescue way certification, those kinds of things”.
Ryder added that the Pentagon and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) are working together to be “prepared for the potential impacts once it makes landfall.”
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The Pentagon’s preparation forward of Hurricane Milton come while over 230 people have been confirmed lifeless in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s new disaster. According to Military .com, estimates from the National Weather Service indicated that MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa is now moving in Milton’s planned direction and that this prediction has led to widespread emergency.
According to Martial .com, most of MacDill Air Force Base’s institutions, companies, and other assets were expected to be closed on Tuesday.
” However, we’ve done this when”, Col. Edward Szczepanik, MacDill’s 6th Air Refueling Wing’s captain,  , said in a Facebook video statement. So, this act as good friends and lend each other a helping hand so that we can all near the base and withstand the storm.”
Rose Riley, a U. S. Air Force director, confirmed that MacDill even evacuated 12 KC-135 plane to Kansas ‘ McConnell Air Force Base, while the 482nd Fighter Wing at Miami’s Homestead Air Reserve Base evacuated seven F-16 planes to San Antonio, Texas.
Martial .com reported that U. S. Navy leaders also announced on Monday that arrangements were afoot ahead of the hurricane. In a speech to Military .com, officials confirmed that three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ships at Jacksonville’s Naval Station Mayport would be sent out to sea, many aircraft would be evacuated or secured at the bottom, and other vessels had been anchored in “heavy weather mooring jobs”.