The leader of Air Mobility Command, Gen. Duncan McNabb, flew the active Air Force’s first new C-130J Super Hercules airlifter to Little Rock AFB, Ark., on Tuesday. McNabb, who picked up the new Herk at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Ga., production facility and flew it on to Little Rock for the 463rd Airlift Group, called the J model “one of the crown jewels of air mobility and the workhorse of the fleet.” The Air Force first fielded the C-130J with Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command units. In a company statement, Lockheed’s C-130 VP, David Haines, noted that the J model “is currently operating around the world in high tempo combat and humanitarian operations,” providing “significant force multiplication for the combatant commander.”
Hawaii F-22s Wrap Up Deployment to Japan
April 9, 2021
F-22s and Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, forward deployed to Japan for almost one month to train with Japanese and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft as part of a “dynamic force employment” operation. The Raptors from the Active-duty 19th Fighter Squadron and Air National Guard 199th Fighter Squadron deployed…