My cousin, or rather my dad's cousin, flew them in the AF for a long
time before graduating to small jets to haul around the perfumed
princes. He had some interesting stories., esp regarding flying into
some rather warm zones with guys who wanted to shoot him down. He got
the tail shot off one at some point but managed to get it on the ground
and walk away from it, he said that was exciting for a few minutes.
I also recall as a younger version of myself visiting my grandparents in
KY in the late 60s and early 70s, they lived not far from Ft. Campbell
(101 Airborne). Every evening at like 7:30 or so, waves of C-130s in
flights of 3 would start flying over headed west. Some evenings there
would be 15 or 20 or more flights of 3 together. It was crazy, like a
train in the sky, hauling stuff to Veetnam. I never saw any returning,
maybe they came in a different path. I always thought that would be the
most boring flying (even though flying is good even when boring), and it
must have taken days to get there.
--FT
On 11/27/17 2:20 AM, Russ Williams via Mercedes wrote:
My God son retired from the Marine Corp 2 years ago as a Lt.Col. He
flew Hercy Birds
all of his career except the time he was Air Attache in Indonesia.
The jar heads use the for everything that needs to be moved and air to
air refueling.
He now works for an outfit in Va. Referbs them for our military and
other countries.
Last time I talked to him he had just returned from Japan after he
delivered on to the JADF.
Russ
On Sat,11/25/17 23:02, Craig via Mercedes wrote:
On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:30:27 -0600 Peter Frederick via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
They are still in very active service in the regular Air Force, too. A
friend of ours recently graduated from secondary pilot training on
M-130s (a C-130 variant) at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and is now
stationed at Cannon AFB in Clovis, NM, for black ops duty with the
plane.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104517/c-130-hercules/
has a lot of information about the aircraft.
Craig
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