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Casualty director

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Brian Ackerman, assigned to the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES), Delaware Air National Guard (DEANG) directs ambulatory role-playing victims onboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft after a mass casualty chemical bomb attack during exercise Life Saver at Gulfport, Mississippi (MS). Supplemental caption: Date: May 12, 2004.

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Exercise notes

Delaware Air National Guard (DEANG) Captain (CPT) Rachel Stevens, a nurse assigned to the 166th Medical Group (MG), 166th Airlift Wing, goes over her medical notes with a colleague after a medical exercise scenario in support of Patriot Exercise 2005. Patriot Exercise 2005, is the largest annual exercise held across the United States. (SUBSTANDARD) (A3603). Supplemental caption: Patriot Exercise 2005 held at Volk Field, Wis., Combat Readiness Training Center, Wisconsin Air National Guard. Date: July 18, 2005.

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Role-playing safety

US Air Force (USAF) Senior Airman (SRA) Mike Schuh, assigned to the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES), Delaware Air National Guard (DEANG), gives a safety briefing to role-player victims before taking off aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft in support of exercise Life Saver in Gulfport, Mississippi (MS). Date: May 11, 2004.

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Iraq fact-finding mission

Walking from a US Air Force (USAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft, US Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat, for Delaware, arrives at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), Iraq, on a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fact finding mission and visiting the troops in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Caption supplement: Sen. Biden walks with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander, Coalition Ground Forces, Iraq. To the right is US Senator Richard Lugar, Republican, for Indiana (walking while holding hat). The C-130 aircraft tail number is 40210, The First State, Delaware Air National Guard. Date: June 23, 2003.

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Over Panama Canal

A Delaware Air National Guard C-130 and two North Dakota Air National Guard F-16 escorts are in flight over the Panama Canal. In the lower right foreground are several small vessels at anchor, and in the background is the Bridge of the Americas, that spans the Panama Canal.

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Eagle Flag Taxi

A C-130 Hercules from the Delaware Air National Guard at New Castle taxis on the runway at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, N.J., after participating in an event for Air Force Exercise Eagle Flag 08-2 Jan. 16, 2007. The exercise is operated by the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Cetner's Expeditionary Operations School at Fort Dix, N.J. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)

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Cast creation

During his annual training at Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii, Staff Sgt. Timothy Galvin, 166th Medical Squadron, Del. Air National Guard, New Castle, Del. observes as Specialist Peregrin Ramirez creates a cast for Private Mitchell Brookman on April 24th (2007). (USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham) (Released)

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Checking the load

Master Sgt. Ken Grabowski, 166th Aerial Port Flight, Delaware Air National Guard, checks pallet documentaton sheets for heavy equipment loads used for air drop training missions by 166th Airlift Wing C-130 transport aircraft.

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Before the formation

A banner-towing small civilian aircraft owns the sky over Ocean City, Md. shortly before a five-ship large formation of Delaware Air National Guard C-130 transport aircraft from the 166th Airlift Wing in New Castle, Del. flew overhead. Beachgoers at Md. and Del. coastal areas saw part of the 700-mile, three-hour training flight on June 7, 2008 over four states (Del., Md., Va., and N.J.) culminating in an airdrop over Coyle Field, N.J. and a return to home station at New Castle Airport, Del.

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Formation overhead

A five-ship large formation of Delaware Air National Guard C-130 transport aircraft from the 166th Airlift Wing in New Castle, Del. in flight heading north offshore from Bethany Beach, Delaware during a 700-mile, three-hour training flight on June 7, 2008 over four states (Del., Md., Va., and N.J.) culminating in an airdrop over Coyle Field, N.J. and a return to home station at New Castle Airport, Del.

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From the inside out

Technical Sgt. Scott Nybakken, C-130 crew chief for aircraft # 213, Delaware Air National Guard, stands partly out of the flight deck window to wash the windows after unit aircrew flew the aircraft over the 10,000 hour flying mark on June 5, 2008. This became the first unit aircraft to reach that milestone since the aircraft were delivered factory-fresh to the base in New Castle, Del. in the mid-1980s. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Matwey)

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Window-washing a champion

Technical Sgt. Scott Nybakken, crew chief for C-130 aircraft # 213, Delaware Air National Guard, washes the aircraft's windows outside the flight deck on June 5, 2008 after the aircraft became the first in the unit's fleet to pass the 10,000 hour flying mark.

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Parked after milestone

Aircraft # 213, Delaware Air National Guard, parked on the ramp at New Castle air base, Del., after passing the 10,000 flying hour milestone on June 5, 2008, becoming the first C-130 aircraft in the unit to pass this mark since the fleet arrived in the mid-1980s.

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Proud C-130 crew chief with air crew

Aircrew and crew chief for Delaware Air National Guard C-130H tail # 213 stand together after 10,000 flying hour mark was broken June 5, 2008. This became the first unit aircraft to reach the milestone since the aircraft arrived new in the mid-1980s. L to R: Aircraft commander and pilot Maj. Tim Casey, Navigator Capt. Mark Linzmeier, loadmaster Senior Airman Philip Harris, pilot Col. Jonathan Groff and commander, 166th Airlift Wing, flight engineer Tech. Sgt. John DeFrancesco and crew chief Tech. Sgt. Scott Nybakken.

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Grounded

Technical Sgt. Scott Nybakken, crew chief for C-130 aircraft # 213, Delaware Air National Guard, attaches a ground wire to protect the aircraft against inadvertant static charges. The aircraft just went over the 10,000 hour flying mark on June 5, 2008 to become the aircraft with the most flying time in the unit's C-130 fleet since eight new C-130H aircraft arrived in the mid-1980s.

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C-130H aircraft crew chief after aircraft reached 10,000 hour flying milestone

Technical Sgt. Scott Nybakken, crew chief for C-130 aircraft #213, Delaware Air National Guard, continues on to another post-flight task after the aircraft became the first in the unit's C-130H fleet to reach the 10,000 hour flying milestone on June 5, 2008.

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10,000 hour C-130H milestone reached by Delaware ANG

C-130 aircraft # 213, Delaware Air National Guard, moments after landing on June 5, 2008. Unit aircrew flew the aircraft past the 10,000 flying hour milestone, the first C-130H aircraft in the unit's inventory to reach this mark. The fleet of C-130H aircraft arrived factory-fresh in the mid-1980s to the New Castle air base.

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Capt. Chris Strickler documents flight routes

Capt. Chris Strickler, 166th Operations Support Flight, Delaware Air National Guard, the mission planner for the June 7, 2008 five-ship C-130 formation and airdrop mission, documents flight routes in the base operations flight planning room.

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A five-ship large formation of Delaware Air National Guard C-130 transport aircraft from the 166th Airlift Wing in New Castle, Del.

A five-ship large formation of Delaware Air National Guard C-130 transport aircraft from the 166th Airlift Wing in New Castle, Del. in flight heading north offshore from Bethany Beach, Delaware during a 700-mile, three-hour training flight on June 7, 2006 over four states (Del., Md., Va., and N.J.) culminating in an airdrop over Coyle Field, N.J. and a return to home station at New Castle Airport, Del.

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Master Master Sgt. Ken Grabowski, 166th Aerial Port Flight, Delaware Air National Guard, checks pallet documentation...

Master Master Sgt. Ken Grabowski, 166th Aerial Port Flight, Delaware Air National Guard, checks pallet documentation sheets for heavy equipment loads used for air drop training missions by 166th Airlift Wing C-130 transport aircraft.

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