"Several nations such as Romania and Poland are buying E-models and investing in new wings to extend their lives. The fleet was grounded in 2005 due to wing stress fractures. They returned to the air a year later with restrictions on how long they could fly."
For Poles it was US gift they did not by... them !
Polish media and the public after the delivery of the first C-130 were furious with a scrap gift from the ally ;)