Just in time for the 2020-2021 hurricane season, a lucky U.S. Air Force Reserve SAR (Search And Rescue) unit in Florida got a brand new HC-130J Super Hercules-Combat King-2.
The first HC-130J for USAF Reserves in Florida, takes off from its birthplace in Marietta, Georgia, 02APR2020.
FL-892 will call Patrick Air Force Base its home, cared for by the 39th Rescue Squadron-920th Rescue Wing. They are the first, and so far only, Reserve SAR unit to get a new HC-130J. (they do fly the older models of HC-130 SAR Hercules)
The HC-130J is one of nine versions of the C-130J series, specifically built for SAR and aerial refueling missions.
Video, HC-130Js operated by 23rd Wing out of Nellis AFB, Nevada, arrived at Moody AFB, Georgia, for up-load of equipment and supplies for SAR ops relating to the Hurricane Harvey disaster in 2017 (interesting how the new C-130Js with their new engines and six bladed props still sound like the old C-130s, well almost):
Video, a 23rd Wing HC-130J returns to its home on Nellis AFB, Nevada, after conducting SAR ops over Texas following the 2017 Hurricane Harvey disaster:
HARVEY: MILITARY REVEALS SEVEN YEARS OF PREPARATION!
HARVEY: CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE DELIVERS AID WITH WORLD WAR 2 AIRCRAFT
VEHICLE I-D: LC-130 À LA SKIS
Twin newborns evacuated from Osan Air Base for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 30MAR2020. The parents are U.S. Army military police based at Camp Walker in the CoViD hot zone of Daegu.
U.S. Army parents of the newborn twins say good bye as their new children are about to be shipped back state-side for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The military police mom saying goodbye to her newborns before the medics take them to a waiting C-17 Globemaster-3 for flight back to the states.
Security personnel stand outside U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, screening of people for CoViD before they can enter the hospital.
U.S. Marines conduct CBRNE drill on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, 02APR2020.
SeaBees delivering meals to personnel in a ‘restriction of movement status’ on Naval Station Rota.
New way to get your prescriptions at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Medical Group pharmacy technician places a prescription order in a drop off box.
Meals delivered to possibly infected Marines quarantined on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.
At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 3D printing being used to make face shields.
Fort Lee, Virginia, enforces Social Distancing for about 8-hundred new Basic Training recruits.
National Guard take over the operations of the Foodbank Santa Barbara, 27MAR2020.
Rapid deployable tent which, once the framing is put into place, is lifted by giant air bags. Outside Middlesex Hospital, 01APR2020.
31MAR2020, National Guard remove gym equipment from Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University, as it will now be used as a Federal Medical Station.
Many of the National Guard personnel being activated are already healthcare workers on the silly-vilian side. Arielle Tango is not only an emergency room technician at her regular job, she’s also a National Guard combat medic Sergeant who specializes in medical data collection. Does activating her for National Guard response to a pandemic actually create a problem for the hospital she was working for as a civilian?
Establishing a Federal Medical Station at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, 31MAR2020.
176th Engineer Brigade personnel inspect a possible Alternative Care Facility location.
National Guard distributing face shields, 31MAR2020.
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.
Pharr Point of Entry, Texas, 23MAR2020.
Near Sasabe, Arizona, 22MAR2020.