Louisiana’s United Cajun Navy Faces Hostile Helicopter Manuever Amid Hurricane Aid Efforts

A Louisiana-based disaster aid group known for the assistance it provides in hurricane recovery is blasting an apparently hostile maneuver that ruined supplies meant for people affected by Hurricane Helene.

"We've found our first free swamp tour customer," the United Cajun Navy's official Twitter/X account posted on Monday.

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The video posted along with the comment shows a helicopter "rotor washing" a POD center where the United Cajun Navy had been distributing supplies. This area had officially been designated as a no-fly zone. The appearance of an unmarked helicopter close to the staging area left volunteers feeling frightened, the UCN reported.

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There are a lot of social media users claiming it was a government helicopter, though the UCN isn't going that far. All they know is that the helicopter was unmarked and its pilots were masked.

"It could have been a hot shot," UCN Vice President Brian Trascher told the website RedState on Monday. "I mean, I just don't know if it was military. I mean, honestly, as an organization, leadership's been kind of hardline about this today and, you know, we think that instead of going down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what happened and why, we're about to deploy to Florida, which is a whole different animal than North Carolina."

The United Cajun Navy has promised an investigation to find out who was responsible for the act, which they said broke several FAA laws.

All the while, the group is planning to head south to Florida, which they said is a "different kind of beast" than North Carolina.

"You know, we're about to deploy to Florida," Trascher told RedState, "which is a whole different animal than North Carolina. If we don't run into the same roadblocks and threats and, you know, hostile actions from a helicopter, then we'll just assume that it has something to do with North Carolina. It's the state."

Government recovery efforts in North Carolina have been heavily criticized for preventing private groups from assisting, using roadblocks and bureaucratic red tape.

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The UCN heads south as Florida prepares to deal with Hurricane Milton, which could make landfall as a storm anywhere between Category 3 and 5 strength.