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94-6704 from Charlie West was the latest to go in. Kind of sad, as the 130th AW won\'t get 704 back. Takes them from 9 to 8 H3\'s. 704 was the last plane I took on a trip, and that trip was to Bagram. Good plane.

Merry Christmas to you all. To anyone deployed right now I extend a heartfelt \"Thank You\". I\'ve been in your shoes, and there is no place better to be at Christmas than at home. Just remember, there is always next year, and you can always tell the grandkids of how you were in the sand for Christmas of 07!

One of my favorite stories about the \"88\"s we had was in February of 2005. We were flying out of Karshi- Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan. We started the day loading up 88-1302 with CDS bundles (all water and food). As a crew chief I always liked to help push the loads and help out the loadmasters when we were not busy pre-flighting. Well, CDS drops are nothing special, so none of us thought anything of this cold day at K2. When 1302 returned, the pilot was very happy and excited. He told us about what happened that day, that instead of dropping to U.S. troops (which is very important, and gives you a good feeling) they had dropped to a village in the mountains of Afghanistan. The hard winter had cut this village off from the rest of the world, they had no food and no access to anything. We dropped to them, which helped them get through the winter. It gave me a good feeling to know that I was part of somthing more than just flying troops, or KBR (Kellog, Brown and Root) around. Reuters News was there on the ground, they fly in on a UH-60 I\'m sure and we got some cool pictures from them.

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Very impressive display, I can\'t believe they did it with #1 and #4 feathered! I miss the herc!

Great Video!! Still amazes me at he agility of the old herc.

Thanks for the pictures. I\'ve seen a few on airliners.net. If you need, our would like some more, I have a few, even the 130ths 94 and 95 models that we got from Martinsburg WV.

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Thanks guys, I can\'t wait to see my old girls!!

I was wondering if anyone had any pictures of these H2s. They are going through conversion to WC-130s down at Dobbins? I worked them when thy were slicks at Charlie West, 130th AW. I would really love to see 1302, 1306 and 1307. 88-1307 was my plane. Hope the Special ops guys have as good of a time on them as we did.

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