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Technology, U.S.

Kentucky dog trains to rescue Alaskans from a HC-130J!

Video

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

K9 Callie and her handler, Technical Sergeant Rudy Parsons, a para-rescueman (aka Para-Jumper, PJ) with the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, wait to jump into the icy water off Alaska, 25JUN2019.

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

Video (by SSgt Darby Arnold) of people jumping out of a perfectly good Alaskan National Guard HC-130J Combat King-2 (I think the dog was just along for the ride on this one):

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

K9 Callie, a Dutch Shepherd, trained for search and rescue, sits on the ramp of an HC-130J aircraft awaiting training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 25JUN2019.

VEHICLE I-D: ALASKA MILITIA GETS NEW HC-130J

THAT’S NOT A C-130J, IT’S STILL THE OLD C-130H!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Alaska Militia gets new HC-130J

Video

The happy new operators of a brand new HC-130J, picking up their ride from the Lockheed Martin facility in Greenville, South Carolina, 01JUN2017. Alaska Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Edward Eagerton.

On 03JUN2017, Alaska Air National Guard’s 211th Rescue Squadron, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, got its first HC-130J.  It was such a big deal that it looks like all the base personnel turned out to witness the arrival of Super Hercules:

The HC-130J Combat King-2 arrives on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 03JUN2017. Alaska Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Nancy Goldberger.

The HC-130J, aka Combat King-2, is designed as a long range Search & Rescue (SaR) aircraft, specializing in rescues during combat, as well as being a long range surveillance aircraft.

U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J in Waco, Texas, awaiting electronics upgrades, 11MAY2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

VEHICLE I-D: NTC AND THE BRADLEY

Drugs, the American Way: ALASKA MILITIA PREPS FOR HEROIN EPIDEMIC!