Herc Love

[HeyJoe]

090810-N-5549O-011 AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 10, 2009) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus looks out the cockpit window of a C-130 aircraft while flying from eastern Afghanistan to Kabul city. Mabus is on his first Middle East tour as Secretary of the Navy visiting with foreign dignitaries, members of government, military and Sailors and Marines. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

 

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090625-G-0314D-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 25, 2009) A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point C-130 crew flies over USS Crommelin (FFG 37), homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the FSS Independence, a patrol boat from the Federated States of Micronesia, patroling in the Western Pacific Ocean. Both the Coast Guard and Navy have shared goals of protecting the fragile ecosystems of Oceania as well as enforcing maritime laws throughout mutual areas of responsibility. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

C-130s landing at night at Entebbe wasn't always a good thing....for the locals

090325-N-2383D-001 ENTEBBE, Uganda (March 25, 2009) Service members from the "Revelers" of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VR) 54, homeported in New Orleans, arrive in Entebbe, Uganda aboard a C-130T Hercules. VR-54 is working with the Ugandan military, service members from Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, and other U.S. service members to conduct search and recovery operations of human remains and flight data recorders from the wreckage of an Ilyushin 76 passenger airplane that crashed in Lake Victoria March 9. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Seaman James Drake/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

"Fat Albert", World's most famous C-130

080920-N-5345W-063 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Sept. 20, 2008) Fat Albert, the Blue Angels' C-130 Hercules flies low and level after lifting off from the runway at the beginning of the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration team's performance during the 50th Anniversary Air Show at Naval Air Station Oceana. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher S. Wilson/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

080213-M-3450A-059 OKINAWA, Japan (Feb. 13, 2008) U.S. Marine KC-130 aircraft of VMGR-152, 1-MAW, fly in a formation. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kristofer Atkinson (Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

071204-N-4500G-235 NORFOLK, Va. (Dec. 4, 2007) Parachute riggers assigned to Special Boat Team (SBT) 20 Air Operations, push an 11-meter rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) into the back of an Air Force C-130 in preparation for a maritime craft aerial deployment system drop off the coast of Virginia Beach. The RHIB will be deployed from the aircraft at 3,500 feet via four parachutes. Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen will conduct a free-fall jump after the RHIB, and prepare to get underway once they reached the water. SBT-20 is one of the few units in the world with this capability. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robyn B. Gerstenslager (Released)

080226-N-2738S-051 SAN DIEGO (Feb. 26, 2008) A rubberized inflatable boat is deployed from a C-130 as part of a Special Boat Team (SBT) 12 maritime craft air delivery system training exercise. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Matthew Syberg (Released)

071205-N-4205W-436 ALANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 5, 2007) A 11-meter rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) descends to the water off the Virginia Beach coast after a successful launch of the Maritime Craft Aerial Deployment System (MCADS). Special Warfare Combatant-craft crewmen (SWCC) and parachute riggers from Special Boat Team (SBT) 20 work together to deploy an 11-meter RHIB 3,500 feet from the rear of a C-130 during an MCADS drop. SWCCs free-fall jump after the RHIB, and prepare to get underway once they reached the water. SBT-20 is one of the few units in the world with this capability. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kathryn Whittenberger (Released)

071205-N-4205W-455 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Dec. 5, 2007) Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) recover parachutes after a successful launch of the Maritime Craft Aerial Deployment System (MCADS). Four parachutes are used to drop an 11-meter rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) 3,500 feet from the rear of a C-130 during an MCADS drop. SWCCs conduct a free-fall jump after the RHIB is deployed and prepare to get underway once they reached the water. Special Boat Team 20 is one of the few units in the world with this capability. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kathryn Whittenberger (Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

070514-N-4044H-003 ATLANTIC OCEAN (MAY 14, 2007) - Naval Special Warfare watercraft land in the ocean after being released by two C-130s during a Maritime Craft Air Delivery System (MCADS) drop. Elements of Special Operations Command Europe, USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51), USS Kauffman (FFG 59) and the Sixth Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) conducted the MCADS operation during exercise Flexible Leader 07. Flexible Leader is a joint exercise designed to increase speed and cohesiveness when standing up a Joint Forces Maritime Component Command (JFMCC). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Eddie D. Harrison (RELEASED)

 

[HeyJoe]

How'd that get in there?:icon_tong

The Tribute by P-3 Navy to "1500" is based on the rescue of survivors from ditching of a VP-9 P-3 more than 30 years ago in frigid waters off Alaska. Quite a story that made it to Reader's Digest and is subject of a book.

 

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AE 606 photos

 

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AE 606 photo

 

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A row of C-130 Hercules aircraft taxi on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Nov. 18, 2009, during a Mobility Air Forces Exercise (MAFEX).
The aircraft are participating in the biannual exercise, which provides realistic training for combat air force, mobility air force and U.S. Army personnel. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Stephanie Rubi, U.S. Air Force/Released)

 

[fc2spyguy]

^^Sucks to be the guy in back.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

AE 606 photos

 

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Marine KC-130

AE 606 photo

 

[HercDriver]

The 1504 painted in the old style in honor of CG's 50th anniversary flying Hercs

CG stock photo.