Why Are They Leaving Appalachia to Die?
THE [AIR FORCE IS] LIKE, "WE CAN'T GO. WE'RE WAITING ON TITLE 10 ORDERS." AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT?"
Posted by @GardensR4Health on Twitter/X:
Urgent Update
Holy F@ck. The government is not running ANY search and rescue missions! This is Johnathan Howard, he’s up there running major rescue operations. Warning: this is HORRIFIC so be prepared. His info in comments. Please tag NC politicians in comments.
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TRANSCRIPT
Really 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 nonprofit. I came up here on Sunday with Aerial Recovery before we even got activated. We flew up here and then we got activated, which is great.
I have 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 bullshit on the news. And these politicians don't have a f@cking clue and they're lying.
I'll say this now. I'll say it in 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.
They're 10 miles in 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There's no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we're dropping down and saving them.
What got me fired up about this, was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-old baby and all these government officials and social media. They're showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that, like Government helped with that. And I mean, I think it was USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a "Florida National Guard" that went and got it with a helicopter."
No! It was me, my buddy Charlie and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter at a Wilmington, North Carolina! Like, without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady, we went and rescued after that.
She'd be dead too. Cause she had one day left of oxygen that no one was going to go get them. I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters and I might see two Black Hawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That's it. No one's out there doing rescues.
I have my entire team, up here from Florida right now, and they have no ability to go rescue these people, other than what they can drive-to and the people that are in dire need. They're out in the mountains. They are completely cut-off!
Now, I will say, I spoke to my Congresswoman, down in Florida a– nd she's a badass – and she made a bunch of phone calls and now we got two contracted sixties coming up here tomorrow, which is great. I love that. But like, I still don't understand why we don't have more helicopters?
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 bullshit! Speaker of the house has nothing. He wants you guys there. But this is the 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 f@cking dying in the mountains!
And these people – like 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 that just in half a day of work. We're in Asheville and I saw two Air Force Helicopter 60s 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 of 40. 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 f@cking die in the mountains, right now because we can't get helicopters!
They got money for everything else in the f@cking 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, because if I can save one more life for it, it's f@cking worth it to me. I really don't want to make this video, but – (video ends).
Running Time: 5 mins
Make this go viral! Sharing!!! Thank you for being human! Those in gov are not!
Similar to that of Lahaina, there is a quota to meet & the general public is not on a need to know basis. Creator bless us all as we work at taking these thugs down.