Word: 130s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond Massawa, the problems multiply. With truck convoys that deliver the food to regional distribution centers frequently harassed by antigovernment rebels, the government's only solution to the problem is to close the roads -- and no food gets through. Airlifting is far more reliable: the giant C-130s can fly across the bone-white moonscape from Massawa to the interior city of Mekele in just half an hour. The unloading crews at the airstrip are a sight to behold. "Move it, move it, go ahead forward, go ahead forward, time is passing, time is passing," chanted a group...
...travel brochure promise exotic scenes of rare beauty: coarse sand beaches curve seamlessly toward the horizon; delicate, silk-draped women smile alluringly. But upon landing at an eerily empty Tan Son Nhut airport, there is no escaping the stark reminders of conflicts past: the olive-drab Chinook helicopters, C-130s and C-47s lie cheek by cowl off the tarmac. This is no Club Med. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, a recent and tentative entrant in the lucrative global sweepstakes known as the tourist industry...
...Point Salines airstrip, the Rangers managed to clear the runway of pipes, boulders and vehicles, which had been placed there by Grenadians and Cubans. The Rangers could now fly onto the field in C-130s. By 7:15 a.m. the airstrip was secure. Hundreds of Cubans had thrown down their weapons and surrendered to the superior U.S. firepower...
...Jersey. Once a supplier to De Mello and Hashemi, Rvocco began arming the Iranian air force directly, and currently has large contracts with it for the supply of U.S. spares and equipment. Ramco records show equipment being sent out of the country for Iranian air force C-130s, and last week U.S. authorities stopped Ramco electronics and aviation parts headed out of the country. Rvocco insists that he has shipped only legitimate dual-use supplies: "There is not a single transaction they can trace to us that is improper." Both De Mello and Hashemi are under investigation by federal agencies...
...poor visibility, one of the helicopters had flown into the nose of the airplane, which itself was preparing to take off. The two aircraft were engulfed in flames, and it was impossible to extract the bodies of the dead Americans. All others were loaded into the other five C-130s and left Desert One, en route to Masirah, a small island off the coast of Oman. Our men had been on the ground about three hours...