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USAF C-130J #20-5975 from the 158th AS sits on the flight line at Savannah ANGB, March 7, 2025 prior to a training sortie during a combat readiness exercise. [ANG photo by MSgt. Caila Arahood]
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USAF C-130J #20-5975 from the 158th AS sits on the flight line at Savannah ANGB, March 7, 2025 prior to a training sortie during a combat readiness exercise. [ANG photo by MSgt. Caila Arahood]
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USN C-130H #162311, from VX-30's Bloodhound arriving at NAS Fort Worth on May 21st, 2025. [Photo by Keith Snyder]
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USAF C-130H #93-1038 from 700 AS flies over southern Wales, on May 16, 2025. The aircraft engaged in low-level, tactical maneuvers to build readiness skills of the aircrew. [USAF photo by Capt. Casey D. Mull]
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USAF C-130H #93-1038 from 700 AS flies over water in the United Kingdom, on May 15, 2025. [USAF photo by Capt. Casey D. Mull]
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USAF HC-130J Combat King II #17-5870 assigned to 102 RQS, taxis on the runway on Francis S. Gabreski ANGB, Westhampton Beach, N.Y., May 2, 2025. [ANG photo by SSgt. Sarah McKernan]
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USMC KC-130J #170278 from VMGR-352 prepares to depart after inserting Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, and the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System into the Batanes Island chain during the Maritime Key Terrain Security Operation as a part of Exercise KAMANDAG 9 in the Philippines, May 25, 2025. [USMC photo by Cpl. Malia Sparks]
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USAF C-130H #93-1457, piloted by Lt. Col Caponetti of the 103rd AW, flies in tandem with a second C-130 flown by Lt. Col. Josh Panis as part of their dual "Fini" Flight and retirement on May 3, 2025. [ANG photo by MSgt. Tamara Dabney]
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Lt. Col. Gary Caponetti disembarks from his final flight as a 103rd AW pilot and is greeted by jubilant friends and family holding champagne bottles and squirt guns in East Granby, Connecticut, May 3, 2025. Completing a "fini" flight and getting doused in champagne afterwards is a tradition for retiring pilots. [ANG photo by SrA Emme Drummond]
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Lt. Col. Josh Panis, a pilot with the 103rd AW, grins as he recovers from the champagne bottle-filled reception party to his pre-retirement "fini" flight on May 3, 2025. The event is a tradition for retiring pilots and occurs before the formal ceremony. [ANG photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian]
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USAF AC-130J #16-5844 taxis into position before takeoff at Kirtland AFB, during April 2024. [USAF photo by SrA Jennifer Knope]
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The main fuselage of C-130H #85-1364, approximately 97 feet 9 inches in length, is shown leaving Robins AFB, May 30, 2025. The C-130 was disassembled and split between four heavy duty freight vehicles to ensure its over 75,000 lb. payload was transferred safely to Eglin AFB. [USAF photo by Arthur Hylton]
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Pararescue board a 71st RQS HC-130J #12-5773 at Patrick Space Force Base, June 5, 2025. [USAF photo by TSgt. Kristen Pittman]
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USAF C-130H #89-9106 takes off for its final flight from Youngstown ARB, as a 910th AW aircraft, on June 9, 2025. The C-130H Hercules aircraft departed with nearly 11,000 flying hours and will be divested to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, Davis-Monthan AFB. [USAF photo by Eric M. White]
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MSgt. Dan Scott, a dedicated crew achieve assigned to the 910th AMXS, and SrA Alexis Youngblood, a loadmaster assigned to the 757th AS, await the signal to pull chocks from C-130H #89-9106 for the last time prior to its final flight from Youngstown ARB, as a 910th AW aircraft, June 9, 2025. The aircraft departed with nearly 11,000 flying hours and will be divested to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, Davis-Monthan ARB. [USAF photo by Eric M. White]