/ Published February 28, 2013
Master Sgt. Robert Hoeft, of the 919th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, prepares to marshal out an MC-130E Combat Talon I at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)
Reserve Airmen watch as an MC-130E Combat Talon I engine spins up during preflight procedures prior to a sortie at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)
Master Sgt. Robert Hoeft, of the 919th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, walks away from an MC-130E Combat Talon I prior to a sortie at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)
Senior Airman Alyson Hill, of the 919th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, waits to begin preflight procedures on an MC-130E Combat Talon I at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)
Master Sgt. Robert Hoeft, of the 919th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, inspects the tire of an MC-130E Combat Talon I while Senior Airman Rebecca Stinson, a loadmaster with the 711th Special Operations Squadron, speaks with the aircrew during preflight procedures prior to a sortie at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)
Master Sgt. Robert Hoeft, of the 919th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals out an MC-130E Combat Talon I at Duke Field, Fla. There are only five Talons left at the special operations reserve base. The 919th has begun remissioning to the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense aircraft, the C-145 Skytruck. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Samuel King Jr.)