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C-130J loadmasters help deliver goods in Afghanistan
C-130J Super Hercules crew chiefs assist loadmasters with moving cargo onto an aircraft before take-off on August 28, 2015, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. [USAF photo by SrA Cierra Presentado]
Aug 31, 2015 - When mission essential goods need to be delivered to bases around Afghanistan, C-130J Super Hercules loadmasters provide the help needed to ensure cargo is placed in the right hands in support of NATO's Resolute Support mission. [Read more...]
Reserve C-130 units take part in Swift Response
Major Rob Rettig, a pilot with the 934th AW in Minneapolis, pilots a C-130 over Ramstein, Germany. The flight was in support of exercise Swift Response. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Trevor Saylor]
Aug 31, 2015 - Two Air Force Reserve C-130 wings are providing aircraft, aircrews and support personnel for Exercise Swift Response 15, a multinational training event in Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy , Aug. 18 - Sept.12 . [Read more...]
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Nine C-130s fly from YARS during Round-Up
A cargo pallet is dropped from C-130H #90-9108 from 757 AS over Camp Ravenna, Ohio on August. 27, 2015. The aircraft was taking part in a nine C-130 formation training mission. [USAF photo by Tech. Sgt. Rick Lisum]
Aug 28, 2015 - Residents of Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania had the chance to see a rare formation of nine C-130 aircraft as the culminating event of a week-long C-130 Round-Up skills competition and training event held Aug. 23-28. [Read more...]
Hurricane Hunters to fly into Tropical Storm Erika from Homestead ARB
USAF WC-130J #99-5309 from 53 WRS sits on the flightline at Homestead ARB on August 27. 2015. Members of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron out of Keesler AFB, came to Homestead ARB to gather data on hurricane behaviors by observing Hurricane Erika as it makes its way across the Caribbean. [USAF photo by SSgt. Jaimi Upthegrove]
Aug 27, 2015 - The U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters are operating out of Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, flying WC-130J Hurricane Hunters into Tropical Storm Erika in support of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. [Read more...]
Reserve C-130s called up to fight wildland fires
Members of the 39th Aerial Port Squadron along with C-130 loadmasters assigned to the 731st AS push a U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System unit on to C-130H #94-7318 on August 2, 2015. It takes about three hours to load and configure the MAFFS unit in a C-130 aircraft. Two Air Force Reserve C-130s were called up to support the U.S. Forest Service wildland fire fighting efforts in California and the Northwestern U.S. [USAF photo SSgt. Nathan Federico]
Aug 03, 2015 - The Air Force Reserve’s aerial fire-fighting unit was called up to join other Department of Defense assets to battle wildland fires in California and the Northwestern U.S. on August 1st. [Read more...]
Hohenfels Training Area cleared to land C-130 Aircraft at STOL
USAF C-130J-30 #07-8613 from 37 AS begins to lift off from the Short Take Off Landing strip at Hohenfels Training Area on July 29, 2015. The aircraft was used to test the capabilities of the recently resurfaced and extended STOL, which is now the only dirt airstrip in Germany capable of supporting an aircraft as large as the C-130. [U.S. Army photo by SSgt. Jerry Boffen]
Jul 31, 2015 - A joint team from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army conducted the first C-130 landing at Joint Multinational Readiness Center in over two years, July 29. [Read more...]
AFSOC receives first AC-130J
AFSOC receives its first AC-130J 'Ghostrider' at Hurlburt Field on July 29, 2015. The AC-130J recently completed its initial developmental test and evaluation at Eglin AFB, and will begin operational tests and evaluation by Airmen with the 1st SOG Detachment 2 and 1st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron later this year. [USAF photo by Amn Kai White]
Jul 29, 2015 - The first AC-130J Ghostrider landed July 29, making it Air Force Special Operations Command’s first AC-130J. [Read more...]
The lives of C-130J loadmasters
Dyess loadmasters from the 39th and 40th airlift squadrons stand in front of a C-130J Super Hercules, July 13, 2015 at Dyess AFB. Currently, there are 147 loadmasters stationed at Dyess who deploy all over the world dropping cargo and personnel. [USAF photo by Amn Quay Drawdy]
Jul 24, 2015 - The hot summer sun beats down on the flightline causing beads of sweat to drip down the faces of loadmasters stationed at Dyess, their hands red from securing the straps of cargo pallets. [Read more...]
US, Bulgarian forces synchronize training to strengthen future
An USAF C-130J Super Hercules and a Bulgarian air force C-27J Spartan fly in formation over Plovdiv, Bulgaria, July 16, 2015. [USAF photo SrA Nicole Sikorski]
Jul 20, 2015 - Airmen from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, went wheels up for a bilateral training exercise with the Bulgarian air force, July 14 through 24. [Read more...]
Hurlburt activates AC-130J detachment
Col. Stewart Hammons, 1st SOG commander, passes the Detachment 2 guidon to Lt. Col. Bret DeAngelis, DET 2 commander, during an activation ceremony at the Hurlburt Field, on July 10, 2015. DET 2 was activated to operationally test the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, train aircrews, as well as develop new tactics, techniques and procedures for the aircraft. [USAF photos by Amn Kai White]
Jul 10, 2015 - The 1st Special Operations Group activated the 1st SOG Detachment 2 in a ceremony on, July 9. [Read more...]
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