“FEMA notified the Coast Guard of the need March 27, and we worked collectively for a whole of government response to expedite the timely delivery.”-Captain Craig O’Brien, U.S. Coast Guard 14th District
Video, HC-130 load-up at Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii, 31MAR2020:
Under Federal Emergency Management Agency direction, a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules flew CoViD-19 medical supplies to the U.S. territory of American Somoa.
Time lapse video of C-130 landing on Pago Pago International Airport, American Samoa, 01APR2020:
American Samoa is a collection of five islands in the South Pacific, approximately 2-thousand-6-hundred miles southwest of Hawaii. Many of the 64-thousand residents work for the U.S. military.
“Military aircraft are a workhorse throughout the world, and in the Coast Guard, we frequently use our HC-130 Hercules planes to deliver necessary supplies and equipment. This is especially true in the Pacific, where we seek to overcome vast distances and challenging timelines.”-Commander James Morrow
Video of cargo followed by HC-130 take-off:
HC-130J: FLORIDA GETS A NEW COMBAT KING IN TIME FOR HURRICANE SEASON
Operation CoViD-19: FEMA’S EMERGENCY AIRLIFT REVEALED!
The first HC-130J for USAF Reserves in Florida, takes off from its birthplace in Marietta, Georgia, 02APR2020.
Michigan Air National Guard’s 127 Wing deploys on a 747-400 people hauler, April 2019.
In November 2013, an Atlas Air operated 747-400 Dreamlifter flew to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, to pick-up parts for construction of 787 Dreamliners from a nearby manufacturer.
Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Missouri Air National Guard off-loaded the 747, one of three early model 747s operated by 
Misawa Air Base, Japan, 2016.
National Air Cargo 747-400 tail number N949CA lands at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, February 2012.
N949CA crashed in Afghanistan, April 2013, killing the seven crew.
Contracted 747 cargo haulers sit in Romania, waiting to be loaded up with supplies for troops in Afghanistan, July 2013.
Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 2012.
A National 747 at Tinian International Airport, Northern Mariana Islands, during Exercise Forager Fury 2012.
Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, April 2011.
Travis AFB, California, April 2009.
121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.
I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.
Washing the main-gear doors, 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska, December 2017.
Kadena Air Base, Japan, 2016. The wash-rack (aka Bird-Bath, officially Aircraft Rinse System) takes 90 seconds to wash the salty sea air off the skin of the Stratotanker.
KC-135R passes through wash rack on Andersen AFB, Guam, 2014.
Hand washing KC-135R, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 2014.
Washing the front landing gear of a KC-135R.
According to the Altus AFB info, it takes eight hours to wash your KC-135.
Every 120 days KC-135 get a scrub-down.
USS Bataan (LHD 5), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Atlantic, November 2019.
Picky, picky, picky. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, September 2019.
Cleaning up after cleaning up, 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 150th Aviation Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, July 2019.
Don’t forget to brush your teeth!
Wipe that ass!
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 14, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in Philippine Sea, November 2018.
In 2012, the U.S. Air Force moves a Tiger-1 from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia, for repair and full restoration.
According to the USAF, the Tiger-1 was originally on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, then at a museum in Germany, before being stored at RAF Alconbury, United Kingdom, with two other tanks.
Apparently there was two years of legal wrangling before the approval was given to send the Tiger to Fort Benning, Georgia.
In September 2015, an old LVT-4 Willie was moved from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, finally landing at Randolph Hall, a Marine training facility located on the Ordnance Campus of Fort Lee, Virginia, in January 2016.
A U.S. Marine welds on a tow bar during Exercise Trident Juncture 18 in Storas, Norway, 18OCT2018.
Contractor welds Tank Urban Survivability Kit onto the lower hull sides of an M1A2 at Camp Taji, Iraq, 2008.
Program Manager-Stryker ‘learns’ welders how to use non-structural welding (aka gas metal arc-pulse) to repair Strykers in the field.
Prepping to weld on a Stryker at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, April 2010.
