The Wing provides the Department of Defense its largest C-130 Hercules transport fleet, supplying humanitarian airlift relief to victims of disasters, to airdropping supplies and troops into the heart of contingency operations in hostile areas.
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From July 1973 to May 1975, the wing flew missions in Puerto Rico, airdropping 1.2 billion sterile screwworm flies as part of a project to eradicate the screwworm menace to Puerto Rico's livestock.
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The Pentagon plans to continue airdropping packets of food into Afghanistan, military officials said this week, even though the United States plans to rebuild Afghan airbases and open roads that would allow much larger deliveries into needy areas.
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He was pilot of the first Air Force plane to fly over the South Pole on October 26, 1956, airdropping the first load of buildings, supplies and equipment for the base at the South Pole on Operation Deep Freeze.
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The wing provides the Department of Defense the largest C-130 Hercules transport fleet in the world, supplying humanitarian airlift relief to victims of disasters, as well as airdropping supplies and troops into the heart of contingency operations in hostile areas.
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During World War II the danish resistance got support from the british island by airdropping quite a lot weapons, equipment and supplies . There is a big number of reports, notes and recorded memories from those people who received the containers at the ground in Denmark.
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When he visited the region last week, Lt . Gen . Maurice Baril, the commander of the planned force, took one look at the green mountainous terrain and acknowledged airdropping food had shortcomings, including the possibility the Hutu militants would benefit more than the neediest refugees.
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The 919th was renamed the 919th Tactical Airlift Group and equipped with the Lockheed C-130A Hercules, and based at Duke Field, Florida, from 1971, it performed airlift of personnel and cargo, in addition to airdropping United States Army paratroopers during exercises from 1971 to 1974.
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The ETF supported numerous exercises around the world, one of which was CENTRAZBAT, in which C-17 s flew multi-national paratroopers non-stop from Pope AFB, North Carolina, airdropping them directly into the Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan demonstrating the capabilities of direct delivery.
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Ignoring the requests of the United Nations and others already involved in on-the-scene relief for logistical help, manpower and trucks, the Americans insisted on airdropping food, and somewhat chaotically at that . ( Only 8 of 24 car-sized parcels reached the ground, rarely intact .)
