Lockheed C-130 Hercules (16-5313)

If I were a military orginazion I would be sure to include the C-130 Hercules in my fleet. It does a fantastic job of moving freight.

USN? What does the USN do with C130's? I know, haul cargo and people, but they have the USMC Hercs for that. Why USN Hercs?

I don't know about this aircraft but I flew ski equipped C-130s in the Navy's VXE-6 Antarctic Development Squadron in the 70's

I travelled in these beauties in the South Pcific, Aussie and South East Asia, fantastic planes.Once on a remote island called Atiu where our RNZE squadron were building a harbour we had a good deal of equipment air dropped to us from heavy engineering plant to newspapers in the 70,s

This picture reminds me of a Sunday at tackikawa AFB (no longer exists). While sitting in the control tower, a C-130 wanted to try windmill starting an engine. There was very light traffic and we approved it. However, the pilot of the C-130 under estimated the length of the runway and ran off the runway into a muddy field. It took a day to tow the C-130 back to the airbase.

The navy uses C-130 to support the Blue Angles team