U.S. Sen. Steve Daines is urging a minimum inventory of 292 C-130 aircraft to be kept by the Senate and House Armed Services Committee Leadership. | Image Source: Facebook - Credit: U.S. Senator Steve Daines
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines is urging a minimum inventory of 292 C-130 aircraft to be kept by the Senate and House Armed Services Committee Leadership. | Image Source: Facebook - Credit: U.S. Senator Steve Daines
Sen. Steve Daines is urging a minimum inventory of 292 C-130 aircraft to be kept by the Senate and House Armed Services Committee Leadership.
“Our Air National Guard C-130 flying wings provide nearly half of the Air Force’s tactical airlift capability. For more than 50 years, we have brought Americans into combat, provided humanitarian relief around the globe and supported domestic response throughout the nation,” Daines wrote in a press release on his website. “As the Air Force proposes changes to align our force structure with the National Defense Strategy (NDS), it is vitally important we do not trade experience and knowhow in pursuit of expensive, less defined capabilities.”
If the minimum number of C-130 aircrafts remain the same, it will allow flight training, backup aircrafts and flexibility to the Montana Air National Guard "for critical maintenance and depot periods that meet the requirements set by the National Defense Strategy (NDS)."
The full letter Daines wrote to the committee on the aircraft can be read here.
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