Question for C-130 and C-17 Drivers
06-04-2014, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Riddler
Never had enough airplanes or crews to make it feasible.
There was a period of time when we were incredibly busy, but again a lot of what we were hauling was questionable and probably not an efficient use of an airplane.
06-04-2014, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Hobbit64
I lived at a little FOB (Salerno, 2002-2003) with a dirt strip and we got a good bit of our everyday needs via CH-47's and we also had C-130's landing on the dirt strip. It was great fun watching the whole evolution complete with ERO's. Really broke up the monotony while sitting QRF on those 120*F days when the bad folks didn't want to play.
I can't remember the length of the 'runway'. It was maintained by US Army engineers who worked a good bit. The used to spread some kind of compound to keep the dust down... 'elephant snot' I think they called it.
I can't remember the length of the 'runway'. It was maintained by US Army engineers who worked a good bit. The used to spread some kind of compound to keep the dust down... 'elephant snot' I think they called it.
06-05-2014, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Hueypilot
I've been to Salerno. Afghanistan was a different story. We did go into unimproved LZs there. But slick Herks didn't in Iraq.
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