We have started a comms channel with civilian, veteran, National Guard, and active duty units working together to identify and prioritize needs, and are working to add additional HAM repeaters, meshtastic data, and additional starlinks.

If you have people on the ground or helicopters that want to coordinate please contact us.

Groups we have connected so far:

GIS / Mapping crews

Former MARSOC / Ranger / SpecOps

Medics/Doctors/Fire/EMT

Smokey MEDEVAC operating out of Knoxville

Active Duty and NG:

563rd PRTF Air Force rescue triad with 2x c-130s, 4x60Ws, and 20 PJs operating out of Knoxville

B 248th ASB (Chinook)

NC National Guard 1 UH-72A, 1 UH-72B, 6 UH-60s, 6 CH-47s + active duty chinooks and Blackhawks flying out of KAVL

TN National Guard

We are deploying:

HAM Radio repeaters

Meshtastic Nodes

Starlinks

We are also raising funds for cold winter clothing, heaters, fuel, and deploying additional comms and data networks in the area, if you would like to help