Here is some info about the C-130 I found via google, take it for what it's worth.
Here's a photo. Pulled it from Code One, and here is part of the story.
"The Hercules earned its sea legs in November 1963 when a Marine KC-130F was flown to a first landing on the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) while the aircraft carrier was underway in the Atlantic. Lt. Jim Flatley and Lt. Cmdr. W. W. “Smokey” Stovall were at the controls and completed a series of twenty-one full-stop landings and takeoffs at increasingly higher weights. Successfully operating a large transport from the deck of a carrier was an amazing feat at the time. More amazingly perhaps, the very same aircraft (Navy Bureau number 149798) is still in operational service forty years later and was flown in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom"