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Article: California Air National Guard Airlift Wing Receives Latest Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules.
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- PR Newswire
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- August 31, 2006
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MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin delivered its sixth C-130J Super Hercules to the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard unit yesterday at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif. The aircraft was flown from the Lockheed Martin Ga. production facility in Marietta to its new home by Maj. Gen. Charles Ickes II, Deputy Director of the Air National Guard and Col. Steven Friedricks, Commander of the 146th AW.
"The C-130J model was fully embraced early on by the Guard," said Ickes during the delivery ceremony at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta. "The C-130J has proven that it can do everything that people ...