2 blackhawks and 2 ch-53 stallions is what you seen, yes they travel on them, yes they get paid, but by who is unknown. This i can tell you, those are military aircraft. so you have military pilots flying them, the fuel is payed for from the squadron budget which is granted to the squadron based off the prior 2 physical years accounting data. in other words taxpayers dollars hard at work. you can say they reimbursed from some unkonw private account, who knows. As the president who is transported via Airforce 1, or Marine 1 when he is on the helicopter. also know as HMX-1. THey both have grants from the government which allow them to operate.