What US bases have C130's?

Question

Just curious where all the bases are for them. I would like to be aircrew, but can't decide if I want to be enlisted or officer. Are there any C-130 crewmembers out there who can talk to me about this?

Answer 1

I'm in Aircraft Structural Repair, and currently woking on C-130's out of Pope AFB NC. There are lots of bases with C-130's. Us, Little Rock, Dyess, Yakota (Japan), Rammstein (Germany), Hurlburt Field (AC-130's) Davis Monthan AFB and more. If you have questions, feel free to e-mail me!!

BTW, Wes is a dork.

EDIT: Ft. Bragg doesn't have ANY C-130's, we're their taxi service at Pope. Ft. Benning doesn't either, they are out of Moody AFB, and the ones in Kentucky are ANG planes. If you want to know who flies C-130's, maybe someone in the Air Force is who you should talk to? Maybe?? Just a thought.

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What US bases have C130's?
Just curious where all the bases are for them. I would like to be aircrew, but can't decide if I want to be enlisted or officer. Are there any C-130 crewmembers out there who can talk to me about this?

Answer 4

Yes, Rammstein, Pope, Little Rock, Dyess, Yakota, etc.
I think there is also a base in Missouri where the Hurricane chasers fly out of (also C-130s)
My best friend is a captain on C-130s.

Wes - what country do you live in that you want our bases out of?
Germany - oh yeah, we protected you from the Communist threat for the last 50 years. Don't forget, the tens of thousands of Germans that are employed on US bases.
The UK - ditto. The Germans before that.
Japan - Proteced you from Red China.

Answer 5

C-130 aircrews fly from many bases around the world. Most are home-based in the U.S. with crews on a temporary deployment to forward operating loctions (FOLs). Most of our state's Air Guard units that have C-130 capability have flown to these FOLs overseas and into combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they generally are bringing in much needed supplies, mail, etc.

I flew on the C-130-A models in the sixties and seventies. The air force is now chiefly using the J-model aircraft. The C-130 is one of the most versatile (and safest) aircraft in the inventory. Military airlift capability is one of their main missions, but they are also used in PARPRO missions (Peacetime Airborne Reconnaissance Program) (that's what I was in), special operations (black missions) paratroop support for joint service operations, weather reconnaissance, gunships, medical evacuations, cargo hauling, troop transport, not to mention hauling a 15,000 Big Bertha bomb, just to name a few of the type missions that are flown. One of the least-known, but always sought-after missions, is bringing in supplies, generators, medical needs, etcetera to ravaged areas from storms, tsunamis, earthquakes in overseas foreign countries. The earthquake in Iran last year that took thousands of lives even accepted our aid that was brought in by C-130 aircraft, to name an instance. C-130 missions also supported relief efforts from floods in Honduras, tsunami in Sri Lanka and Thailand, eathquake in Turkey, etc.

I was an enlisted member (about one percent of the enlisted force are on aircrew status). I enjoyed my 22 years as an enlisted member. Had I been a college graduate, I may have opted to become an officer - which said degree is a requirement for the officer corp. Either officer or enlisted can have its ups and downs....not necessarily one over the other. So speaking from my own 22-year experience, I didn't get the short end of the stick. I served overseas in 7 foreign countries and actually visited another six. I enjoyed the entire time that I spent in the air force. Life isn't always good, whether you are a civilian or a military man/woman, but it is life. And it really is what you make of it, no matter what others may say.

Times have changed considerably since the Cold War. We have fewer bases in other countries in which to be stationed, although England, Germany, Guam, Japan, Korea, Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Kuwait, Hawaii, Alaska, Portugal (Azores), Egypt, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore are locations outside the continental United States that either have bases where we rotate into regularly or receive our C-130 aircraft on a semi-regular basis.

Hope this helped to answer your questions.

Answer 6

Rhein-Main AFB in Frankfurt, Germany has C-130s. My unit rode them every year to Crete and back.

Answer 7

i know benning has c130s, just personal opinion but any job in the military would be better being an officer. enlisted people get the short end of the stick, they have to do all the hard labor work wile the officers plan what they will do from an office with a/c. officer is the way to go.

Answer 8

fort bragg,nc
fort benning, ga
fort campbell,ky
become an office so you can tell people that know more than you what to do

Answer 9

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